We Need Your Bottles and Cans!

If you do not already know, we are trying to raise the necessary funds to start and fund Collège Amélioration Jeunesse for an entire year, by collecting empty bottles and cans.

Donated Cans !

To open and run the school for an entire year, we will need $25,000. This is a lot of money for any person or project to raise, but if many people help out it we believe it can happen. To reach our goal, we will have to collect 500,000 (yes, half a million) bottles and cans! While it won't be impossible, it will (and has been) difficult.


That's why we need your help. The only way Collège Amélioration de Jeunesse can open it's doors, is with your help. The school will provide a quality education to some of the most deserving but desperate children from the poor community of Padre Granero.


The boy on the left is named Grabiel, and is just one of the amazing kids we want to provide with a quality education. We want to be able to provide this in a school where he can learn and feel safe. 


He is 11 years old(small for his age) and comes from a very large family. He works selling fruits and selling seas shells to tourists and  begging on the beach. He has gone through many painful events in his young life, but remains one of the sweetest kids I know.


About a year ago, a tourist committed to paying his school fees, but only paid them for four months. As his family was unable to continue to pay, Grabiel was thrown out of school. Since then he has attended a Haitian grassroots school, but rarely attends classes anymore. He says that the kids in his class are "fou" (wild/crazy) and the teachers are always beating the kids. Grabiel is extremely polite, opinionated, and smart. Being in a class that teaches the same thing consistently (because kids come and go) does nothing for him. Once he has learned something, he has mastered it and needs to go to the next level. He needs to be challenged. In just his four months of attending his former school, where he received basic English lessons once a week, he is able to hold a basic conversation in English with confidence. He told me that he would frequently  get in trouble at his former school for going ahead and completing pages in the exercise book in advance. 

To know that Grabiel is now not in school, but instead on the streets working and begging, is heart breaking. There are 30 other kids in similar situations as Grabiel, and your empty bottles and cans can help bring us one step closer to helping change this. 


Education instead of Ignorance.


School instead of Work.


Love instead of Hate.




If you are in Montreal and would like to donate your empty bottles and cans, that would be amazing. Please e-mail youthupliftment@hotmail.com


If you are not in Montreal, or don't have any cans to donate but still want to help, please consider making a donation using Paypal.