On April 25th three Streetfront students along with Trevor spoke at a school assembly at Dr. R.E.O. McKechnie  Elementary School. Jasper, Nick and Jesse did a fantastic job speaking to the young students about their experiences at Streetfront, their marathon running accomplishments and Streetfront’s Street2Peak Project: Mt. Kilimanjaro. This talk is one of many to come over the years as part of a mission of the S2P Project to have youth inspire youth to go beyond what they think is possible, to reinforce that it doesn’t matter where you come from – it matters where you...

Today we worked in our garden guided by the staff and volunteers with the Environmental Youth  Alliance. We sampled the leaves and flowers (taste like broccoli) of our Kale plants, planted two more apple trees, added more mulch to the paths, transplanted the green onions from our indoor starter garden and into their new home soil, did some weeding, and mixed some of our rich on site compost into the garden beds.  Despite the rain we accomplished a lot, learnt some new things and had fun. How is this connected to our Mt. Kilimanjaro trip? Britannia has a sister community garden program with the Sega Girls School in Morogoro, Tanzania. Sega is a residential secondary school for bright motivated Tanzanian girls who otherwise are unable to attend school due to extreme poverty. If possible we hope to visit their school and garden when we are in Tanzania in March...

The Street2Peak Project is very pleased that we are starting to get a lot of media attention for Streetfront Alternative School, our awesome marathon running students and our up-and-coming Street2Peak Family Charity Run. Keep an eye out for articles in the Vancouver Courier, Impact Magazine, WestCoast Families magazine and an appearance on Breakfast Television! Thank you to all that have been actively working on creating media buzz for our project and talking it up on social...

Trevor and students starting off on the first of our thrice-weekly runs. Bring on Kilimanjaro!

Mike Veinot from CBC’s Village on a Diet and Rep One Fitness will be leading us through the warm up at 9:00 am before the run start. Register now for the run and help support our drive to place 18 inner-city on the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro!