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École Saint-Viateur-Clotilde-Raymond Centre de services scolaire des Grandes-SeigneuriesMontérégie
Having noticed how many articles of clothing were being thrown out by their own families, the language development students at Saint-Viateur-Clotilde-Raymond elementary school decided to develop a product made entirely from recycled fabric. This goal of this project was to cut down the amount of waste generated by the community, thus reducing its ecological footprint. A simple and effective solution, true, but it took the entrepreneurial spirit of these young people to come up with it!
Montérégie
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The project grew much larger than planned. Although the students only sought to raise awareness in the community about the wastefulness of discarding clothing—a goal they achieved—they actually managed to reach a much larger audience! Their know-how and ability to co-operate enabled them to produce 300 tawashis in a year, though they had only projected making 100. This proved to be a huge boost to their self-confidence and left them with a strong sense of accomplishment.
Several municipalities and Internet figures mobilized to provide the young entrepreneurs with fabric so they could make tawashis. These included the children's clothing company Giraldof, which donated unused fabric. Ricardo Larivée and his assistant, Élaine Martin, also encouraged the project. A group of St-Jean bikers helped promote the tawashis and raised funds. The Dragons' Den team offered to pay for a graphic artist to design a web page for this project.
Any fabric scraps were then recycled by Certex.
Education Through Entrepreneurial Spirit is excellent for integrating skills from the Preschool and elementary education program and the Secondary education program.
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