National Camp Reminder # Uno!

Hello!

Just a little reminder from your friendly neighbourhood National Camp Coordinator,

National Camp applications are due on March 16, 2015 to the NCC.

For more details please download the National Camp application form!
         
Click this link:
National Camp Application!


Bonjour!

Seulement un petit rappel de la part de votre super National Camp Coordinator,

Les demandes pour le National Camp sont à remettre au NCC pour le 16 mars 2015.

Si vous désirez de plus amples détails, téléchargez le formulaire d'application!

Suivez le lien suivant:
National Camp Application!

CISV Montréal Cookie baking time!

Hi JB Canada!
Bonjour chère JB Canada,

This is the very first attempt of the Commsquad for a bilingual post, so here it is:

Cette semaine on célèbre les accomplissements de la branche junior de Montréal qui a organisé son cookie-o-thon annuel en janvier dernier! Plusieurs jeunes se sont fait un plaisirde s’y présenter, prêts à se mettre les mains à la pâte. Le résultat? 410 délicieux biscuits ont été remis à l’organisme Dans la rue veillant aux besoins immédiats des jeunes sans abri pour les mener vers une vie plus autonome.

This week’s post is to display JB Montreal’s wonderful accomplishments. Indeed, they hosted their annual cookie-a-thon last January and many JBers came ready to bake!The results? 410 delicious cookies have been handed to an organization called Dans la rue. This Montreal-based organization cares for the immediate needs of homeless youth and youth at risk in order to help them lead more autonomous lives.

Great job JB Montreal! Beau travail JB Montréal!

Until next time JB Canada! :)

National Camp Spoiler!

Hello Everybody:)

We have some inside information on national camp! Don't tell the NCC :D

SPOILER ALERT! (but you know you want to see it)

An awesome hand drawn map of the site!

CISV Ottawa keeping warm with cookies!

A few weeks ago on the second weekend of December (Dec. 12-13), CISV Ottawa had its first ever Holiday Cookie-A-Thon! They baked over 1300 cookies that are seemingly traditional for the holiday season! The JB of Ottawa made ginger molasses, sugar, and vanilla cookies! (YUM!) As well as playing some super fun activities run by the older JBers, the participants had a lot of fun mixing, rolling, baking, and decorating!! 

With about 30 participants of all different ages, they were up and moving constantly until about 4am when everyone was exhausted! Throughout the night they had a game of Canadian Trivia, a crazy game of squirt, and many pick-up games of basketball, amongst many other games and energizers! 

To spread the wealth to the non-CISV citizens of Ottawa, a group of brave JBers stood outside in the cold selling to citizens! They were more than happy to deal with the cold, however, because they were spreading the word about CISV and selling a ton of cookies! All of the profits made from this year’s Cookie-A-Thon will be donated to the CISV Ottawa bursary fund! This will help Ottawa JBers who maybe cannot afford to travel get the great opportunity because CISV should be an experience that should be shared! 

They cannot wait until the next Cookie-A-Thon to bake even more delicious cookies!

Many thanks to JB Ottawa for this awesome update and pictures of cookies!

Friendly reminder from our amazing NCC, Santana, National camp staff applications are due on January 31st if you know anybody that is interested please email her at ncc@ca.cisv.org


sincerely,

CommSquad :)

Peace One Day Working Group!

Hey JB Canada! 

International Peace Day is quickly approaching! Want to get involved with the Peace One Day working group?

Check out our new blog for more information! 

Step Three: Speak Up!

The third step of this years International Junior Branch project Branch Out has finally been released! Do you want to know more? Check out our brand new Canuck blog to find out more! http://cisvcanuck.wordpress.com

Americas' Junior Branch

Hey JB Canada! Check out what's going on all across the Americas' on the Americas' Junior Branch webpage! It has loads of information about the AJB Team and our National JBs. 

http://ajbcisv.wix.com/ajbweb

CanExUs!

For anyone interested in staffing the JB North Neighborhood workshop CanExUs. Taking place this fall, please email you NJR's at njr@ca.cisv.org

An update from Doris Al-Land!

A few weeks ago, CISV Fredericton hosted a minicamp called “Doris Al-Land”, a play on the words Doris Allen. It was a great success!  We focused on the theme of World Issues and planned activities that focused on current events. 

The staff had a great time planning!  We decided to create a promotional video to try and get more interest in our camp, and it worked really well.  JB Iceland saw our video and challenged us to a craziest/silliest faceoff. 

A lot of new delegates as well as past CISVers attended the “Doris Al-Land” minicamp.  We did many energizers, like the Pony Song and Purple soup, and did activities like Mango Alias and listened to a RadioLab podcast. 

We are really looking for forward to our next activity, this past minicamp has got everyone excited about CISV!

Lots of love from JB Fredericton

xoxo

London's Annual Cookie-a-thon!

In the past month CISV London was hard at work planing our first successful activity since our fall minicamp. like many other chapters in Canada we hosted our annual Cookie-a-thon. 

During our 12 hour activity we had a total of 35 participants including new travellers and preteens that have a shared interest in making new friends and baking cookies. Even parents came out to partake in the activities and the countless energizers that we did through the activity. Our JB created a brand new activity, where participants were divided up into numerous countries from around the world and learnt a bit about their respective country, the type of government and fun facts like currency, politics, and how much their country was in dept to china, all while trading for the ingredients to make cookies, with the end goal of having the most cookies at the end of the hour. 

This year we donated 2596 cookies, with many more being eaten by participants, by the time the sun set on this jam packed day we were all begging to get out of the kitchen and into our beds.