Make A Move with Jagger to benefit from 100 Kids Who Care

Slaymaker says each of the kids brought $10 to donate. Each child who registered for the event nominated a local charity to be considered for the money raised, with three charities randomly selected from that list.

Slaymaker says Cystic Fibrosis – The Princess Ball, Special Olympics and Make a Move with Jagger – a fundraiser for an all-access, barrier-free playground at Mattie McCullough Elementary School in south Red Deer were the three randomly selected charities the children were able to vote for. The winning charity turned out to be the Make a Move with Jagger initiative.

“I think the message to be sent with this program is so much more than the money that’s raised,” added Slaymaker. “It’s about the kids coming here and being a part of something like this, something that’s bigger than them, something that they can learn from and go out and hopefully continue a new walk of life. Hopefully they take one thing or two things or three things that they came to this meeting not knowing and walk out the door and implement them into their daily life or their routine or maybe a way of life with respect to volunteering and making a difference.”

Slaymaker says getting involved in the 100 Kids Who Care initiative is a great way for Dance Magic to take the impact they already have on kids one-step further.

“Initially, we brought it to what we consider a leadership program within the studio. We brought it to some of the teenage kids and said ‘Hey, this is an idea, what do you think?’ and they got really excited about it, so we got really excited about it and together we’ve now had, this is our fifth meeting, so it kind of has continued to snowball” explained Slaymaker. “It’s about the kids being part of what we do, it’s not just for Dance Magic, it’s for the whole community and I think that we were just really lucky to be able to have a strong connection to youth in the community and that we can use that to hopefully reach even beyond what our demographic is.”

Youth Leader Kaden Nivens is a 16-year-old Grade 11 student from Lindsay Thurber High School and one of the founding leaders who’ve attended all five 100 Kids Who Care meetings over the past two years.

He says, “I believe that we need to make a change and that youth especially, they have the ability to make a lot of change for the better in their communities. So I’m involved with my leadership groups at school, I believe that volunteering and all these meetings is a great way to raise awareness and money and just help our community out, give back.”

Nivens adds he hopes to take away a renewed and refreshed feeling of that ‘ability to give back’ by taking part in this experience.

“Get involved, it’s super easy to do. Like this meeting, bring ten dollars, have a fun afternoon and come out of it with the sense of you’re doing something good.”

by Sheldon Spackman

Make A Move with Jagger to benefit from 100 Kids Who Care

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