Days of Action Approaches!!!

I wanted to address some of the challenges and successes involved in the preparations of the Earth day event called "Days of Action". It was important to have a thorough representation of all sectors in the community to collaborate on building up new social capital through a large community event such as this one. It was brought to the steering committee's attention that more First Nations representatives should be included. This made me feel that involving the entire community was an active duty and any missed representation of the community was in part a product of bad communication and a lack of thoroughness. It is difficult when attempting to do something good for the community to not make oversights that will devalue the concept and the efforts to bring the community together. This oversight was caught in good time and thorough representation will be made at the event.
Funding for the event has come from businesses in the community along with a large chunk of funding from the national scientific community called NSERC. Thanks to all the support from the community and from NSERC, the event will suffer no shortage of funding. The community for this project has extended far from the folks of school district #63 as it now includes supporters from NSERC, the district and the entire southern region of Vancouver Island. Creating relationships between neighbouring communities and between national and international communities offers a network capable of achieving goals that may not be possible without these relationships.