Community service is a value that Blyth incorporates into
all of our programming. Students at our local campus participate
in a number of volunteer projects throughout the year, including
Habitat for Humanity construction in Scarborough, representing
Yorkville for the Ice Fest activities in winter, fundraising
and climbing in the WWF’s CN Tower Stair Climb in
Toronto and stocking shelves at the Ottawa Food Bank.
Around the world, students in our international credit programs
have made crafts with kids in Egypt's Children's Cancer
Hospital, prepared meals for cancer and HIV/AIDS patients
in Los Angeles and have worked with Coastal Ranger crews
in New Zealand. As well, community service focused trips
have allowed students to build schools in Tanzania, work
on environmental projects in the rainforest and help orphans,
school children and the elderly in Costa Rica. Blyth's programs
are continually striving towards making a difference and
we believe strongly that every positive action can create
a positive change in this world.
These international trips are built around community service
projects rather than credit courses, but students will still
walk away with valuable insights and experience gained through
service learning...
Our local campuses in Yorkville, Thornhill, Brampton and
our summer school branches participate in a wide array of
community service activities...
Many of our ‘International Summers’ programs
offer the chance to participate in community service excursions...