Recent Updates

May 1

Minnesota Vikings join the “Super Bowl for Service”

We are so excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with the Minnesota Vikings to support We Day Minnesota, coming to the Xcel Energy Center for the first time on October 8!

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Apr 29

National We Day ‘Caps’ Off the Year

What an amazing way to wrap up the We Day season! National We Day was our first We Day in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, and it couldn’t have been more inspiring! From speakers like Martin Sheen, Rob Stewart and Helene Campbell, to rocking performances by Neverest, Kardinal Offishall, Tyler Shaw and Shawn Desman, the crowd of 4000 shameless idealists left the Robert Guertin Centre pumped up and ready to take action!

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Apr 22

We Day is coming to the UK!

Free The Children is excited to announce that the first We Day UK is happening on 7 March 2014! Up to 10,000 people from all over the country will have the chance to attend this incredible event at Wembley Arena. Co-Chaired by Holly Branson and Rumi Verjee, We Day UK is set to be the biggest highlight of the school calendar next year!

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Apr 11

The Road to We Day

Feel the We Day excitement by catching the upcoming special, The Road to We Day , on JOEtv on Friday April 12 at 8 p.m. PST or on Q13 FOX Sunday, April 14 at 5 p.m.

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Apr 3

National We Day Talent Announced

Our first National We Day in the Ottawa-Gatineau region is coming up on Monday April 29th and we’re thrilled to share the list of speakers and performers with you!

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Mar 26

Sheppard P.S. is a We School

Written by Anna Lucas, Educator at Sheppard P.S. Teaching affords one many joys but witnessing the passion and commitment of our Me to We Club at Sheppard P.S. in Kitchener has afforded me one of the greatest joys in 23 years of teaching. Inspired by We Day Waterloo Region, we kicked off Me to We at Sheppard with our own Mini We Day.

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Mar 17

We Day on Piers Morgan Live

It was thrilling to be invited on Piers Morgan Live to talk about what We Day means to the thousands who will be attending in Seattle  and Minnesota. Craig and Mia Farrow spoke about the sense of purpose and identity that We Day provides youth and Martin Sheen congratulated the young We Day heroes who have been standing up to make a difference in their communities.

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Jan 18

Burrows Hall Inspired to Make Change after We Day

Written by Andrea Sandhu, TDSB Educational Programming Coordinator, Free The Children After attending We Day for the very first time this year, the students at Burrows Hall quickly returned to school eager to start up a Me to We club.

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Nov 26

Free The Children Featured on 60 Minutes

What an incredible thrill and honour to have our work featured on 60 Minutes once again! It is rare that an organization is given the opportunity to appear on the most prestigious, influential and hard-hitting of all the US news magazine shows. And Sunday night’s episode marks our second appearance. We are blessed with the incredible chance of lightning striking again.

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Nov 23

St Ann’s Students Lead the Way for Change

We have a group of superstars blazing their way towards a world free of poverty and exploitation at St. Ann School in Bridgeport, Connecticut! Over the past five years, the entire student body has found unique ways for every student to learn about social issues around the world and participate in fundraisers to support Free The Children’s Adopt a Village program in Haiti and Kenya. Through the guidance of the school’s administrator, Theresa Tillinger, and educator, Dawn Pilotti, educators are encouraged to find individual ways to incorporate social issues into their classes. And there are many.

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