Cookie-a-Thon: CISV Ottawa Style!

Hey CISV Canada! 

Recently the CISV Ottawa chapter hosted our annual Cookie-a-Thon! We all had a blast and we ended up baking 1200 cookies! (Yes Toronto, you beat us) We played games like mafia, suits and a huge game of Apples To Apples, along with baking a ton of cookies and watching Frozen! 

We are selling most of the cookies but we are also setting up a sponsor program where instead of buying a bag of cookies for themselves, Ottawa members can buy one to send to our local homeless shelter: the Ottawa Mission! 

We will be selling a lot of these cookie at our up and coming event: Silly Chili, which is a chapter-wide potluck dinner where the chapter members can meet the traveling delegations for this year! 

Well that's all for now from Ottawa! We will keep you all updated on our events! 

For recent updates about all things JB Ottawa, check out the LJR blog!  http://himandherljr.wordpress.com/

Love from the Capitol, 

  Troy- Ottawa LJR 

Cookies, Cookies and more Cookies: An update from JB Toronto

Hey JB Canada! It’s Adam from JB Toronto. We just had our annual cookieathon. We all worked very hard some of us even worked all night to get the cookie making done. It was a blast. 

We ended up making 3200 cookies, which we gave to the poor. Not only did we make cookies, we also played some really fun games as well as made some new friends. One of the coolest parts of the night was when we had someone who was on the first village ever come and talk to us about it. He showed us a video of his village and explained what they were doing on it. It was very interesting to know all about it. In all we had a great time and are already excited for next years cookieathon! 

Branch Out: a new IJB Project

Having trouble completing your 5/8 activities? Participate in this IJB Project! It count's as one! 

Branch Out is the International Junior Branch Project on Diversity for 2014. It is composed of six steps that will be published throughout the year.

Dive In! is the first step of Branch Out. It aims to promote a discussion on Sexuality and Gender Diversity issues.

It is composed of one ready-to-run activity and further reading on the topic. We hope it will be a useful tool for CISV to explore Diversity in 2014. 

You can find more information here: http://issuu.com/cisvjuniorbranch/docs/branch_out_2014_-_step_one_-_dive_i