The Winston Churchill High School Interact Club is hosting a clothing fair on Monday, December 5, 2022. (Photo: Raiyana Shams, Winston Churchill Interact Club)

By Justin Goulet

Local students providing warm clothing to community members in need

Dec 1, 2022 | 8:06 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Lethbridge students have come together to help their fellow community members during the holiday season.

Raiyana Shams is a grade 12 student at Winston Churchill High School, and a member of the school’s Interact Club. Throughout the months of October and November, the club has been gathering donations of clothing and hygiene products for a clothing fair on Monday, December 5, 2022.

Shams explained that on Monday, from 3:10 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., “We’re going to have [Winston Churchill High School] students and their families come and get whatever clothes they need.”

She said, “For the rest of the week, during lunch and advisor times, we’ll have students come and get whatever they need and then on Friday [December 9], after school, we plan on giving [what’s left] to Streets Alive [Mission].”

Shams told LNN that this is the second straight year that the club has organized this initiative and last year received a positive reception.

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She explained that although the drive started off as being geared toward Winston Churchill High School students and their families, for this season, “anyone [who] needs some extra clothes for the winter, [can] come to Churchill and we’ll guide you to it.”

Shams said, “We found that a lot of people in our community want to get some clothes, especially for the winter, to stock up on those, so we have lots of nice jackets and stuff, just to provide warmth.”

She added that the club’s work with Streets Alive Mission allows them to help provide warm clothing to the homeless population in Lethbridge, “that really need it to survive in the cold weather.”

Shams noted that if anyone would still like to donate any clean, washed clothes and hygiene products, they can contact the club by email at winstonchurchillinteract@gmail.com, call Winston Churchill High School at 403-328-4723, or visit the club’s Instagram page.

She said, “We hope that it will help students and their families get some clothes that they need, some hygiene products that they need and hopefully, they’re able to just feel better in this cold.”

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by Justin Goulet

Local students providing warm clothing to community members in need

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