RAYJON SHARE CARE of Sarnia Inc.
RAYJON YOUTH COMMITTEE
NEW PROGRAM!!
A new branch to Rayjon
Rayjon began just short of twenty-five years ago when a couple of people visited a country that made a life-lasting impression on their lives. In 1986, Ray Wyrzykowski and John Barnfield established Rayjon Share Care of Sarnia. Among many projects in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and other developing countries, Rayjon has sent over 2500 Canadians on awareness trips that seem to make that same life-lasting impression on those people when they return.
This summer of 2009, a young group of people have collaborated with the heart and desire to create a branch off of the Rayjon organization focused on the young people who attend these awareness trips and the young people of our own community that want to make a difference. The Rayjon Youth Committee has been founded.
The committee is made up of eight main positions, including members involved locally in Sarnia, as well as members involved while away studying at University or College. The enthusiastic individuals have come together to focus on not only supporting projects in developing countries, but also to provide support for young people locally who want to get involved with Rayjon.
Already, the Rayjon Youth Committee has organized a successful information BBQ, as well as a Carwash and BBQ to fundraise scholarships for the first graduating class at St Patrick’s High School in Haiti that Rayjon has direct involvement with. As positions were created and stepped into, more and more ideas have been developed in order to get young people involved with Rayjon in a more direct way.
Fun events to attend and new ideas to fundraise for what is needed are among the many things the Youth Committee hopes to offer to our community. Current and future ideas include: the collection of empty salad dressing and Tabasco sauce bottles to be cleaned and sent over to Haiti, in order to provide containers for their homemade products; annual social events to gather young people together, providing not only food, but more information and awareness of Rayjon; various plans to raise money for graduating students of the Rayjon-funded St. Patrick’s High School in Haiti; and implemented plans to connect young people of Sarnia, studying in various places through North America, branching awareness of Rayjon across the map.
The Rayjon Youth Committee would not only like to take this opportunity to introduce their new branch to the organization; but also, we extend a genuine welcome to get involved as well. Young people and those young at heart are more than appreciated to attend meetings, offer ideas, or simply stay in touch for more information along the way. For any questions on how to get involved, to check-off volunteer hours for high school, and/or to meet other people with the same desire for the greater good, please contact our Committee Chairperson, Mary Daly at rayjonyouth@hotmail.com.
Volunteers can attend meetings and events and simply get involved in anyway best suited for them. The Youth Committee of Rayjon extends the belief, ‘quality of life is justice not charity’, as well as includes support for young people locally and offers new events, with food, of course!
Join our email list for more information. Contact Rayjon Youth Committee at rayjonyouth@hotmail.com.
Laura Persichetti
Youth Committee Inner-Campus Coordinator