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Annual Report 2017 – 2018
Pillar 4: Extraordinary Community
EXPANDING THE CROFTON HOUSE COMMUNITY
2017 Winter Bazaar
The Crofton House Winter Bazaar meals and a healthy snack each day. “Everyone at Crofton House is so
has always served as an important “We received a donation that was so grateful for that opportunity to make a
opportunity to contribute to the much more than expected, so we difference. As a result they feel a sense of
broader community of which Crofton have plans to augment our summer pride at being a part of this community.
House is a part, while drawing our own program,” says Kirschner. “It’s more Everybody is pitching in because it’s
School community closer together. The than keeping our kids fed - it’s about meaningful to them,” says Suzanne.
charitable roots of the Winter Bazaar giving them joyful and exciting “It’s an opportunity to contribute to our
go back to the early 1970s when experiences.”
community and the wider community
proceeds raised were donated to the
through an event that’s part of the fabric
More than 40 conveners and 900 of Crofton House.”
Red Cross and other organizations.
volunteers generously shared their
In the words of co-chair Kris Dattani, skills and their time to bring this
the Winter Bazaar is about “giving year’s event to fruition, with volunteer
back to your own community in a participation from parents and
way that engages people and creates students, supported by the School.
an opportunity for them to connect Suzanne Chong, who co-chaired
with each other - and it’s about giving the event with Kris, says that the goal
back to the broader community.”
for the Winter Bazaar is to involve as
many people as possible and make it
Last year, the CHS Parents’ Auxiliary
made a three year commitment to a true community event.
donate the proceeds from the Winter
Bazaar to KidSafe, an organization
that offers daytime programming for
children at six locations in the city
where they are most vulnerable during
school breaks.
This year’s event raised an incredible
$61,800 for K idSafe. Quincey
Kirschner, KidSafe’s executive director
says the proceeds will go beyond
simply supporting the KidSafe meal
program, which provides two hearty
T he 2017 Winter Ba zaar saw
i nc re a s e d i nvol ve me nt f rom
students in both the Junior and
Senior Schools. Senior School
students embraced the planning
and execution of a gift basket booth,
efforts that paid off with baskets
selling-out. The Junior School ’s
craft booth fostered a greater sense
of contribution, where girls were
excited to make and sell beautiful
ornaments.
“The Winter Bazaar
is an opportunity
to contribute to
our community
and the wider
community.”