A classroom of young students in Vernon is challenging the school district to follow their lead and support besieged Ukraine in any way they can.
Melanie Doucet’s Grade 6 class at Beairsto Elementary has been learning about the war in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded the sovereign European nation on Feb. 24.
More than two months of news and civilian footage has followed that date, transporting images of bombarded cities, shelled neighbourhoods and demolished schools to homes in Canada and around the world.
Doucet has invited guests, including a retired Canadian army soldier (the father of one of her students), to help explain the evolving conflict. The conversations led to a challenging question: what can a single classroom of kids do to help?
The class decided to raise money to donate to the Red Cross, which is matching donations to Ukraine. They asked for a toonie from each student, to …