Que Viva Ecuador!

On April 7th, 2013 the Toronto Mobilizers celebrated a successful year with our benefit concert Que Viva Ecuador! The event was held in partnership with University of Toronto Scarborough's Latin American Student Association at Hart House!

Photo by Monique

The concert was a huge success and allowed us to hear performances from local artists such as Daevyd Pepper and Felipe Pereira, Mobi Mawla, Mike Iurincic, and Kristin Van De Ven...

Photo by Monique

Photo by Monique

Photo by Monique

We also had a raffle of amazing prizes donated by the Me To We Store before hearing from Rashmi Logo, SoulFrets, Henry Vivel, Ferdelle Lauren Capistrano and Indra Sarwinata and BAM! Toronto Youth Poetry Slam team!

Photo by Monique

Photo by Monique

Photo by Monique

Photo by Monique

Photo by Monique

The event was a huge success and raised $308.82 for water projects in Llullin Totoras, Ecuador! But the year isn't over yet! Sign up for We Are Silent online and participate in this amazing campaign by being silent all day and staying off phones and social media to raise awareness for issues faced by children worldwide on April 18th, 2013! Then, hit up our Facebook page at facebook.com/dttomobilizers to tell us about your experiences! 

We'll be coming at you with more MOB stuff ahead! Thanks to everyone who helped make this event such a huge success!

MAD MOB LOVIN!

Alice, Daniela, Dylan, Julia

We Are Love!

Love is in the air and our MOBilizers are feeling it!

Photo Courtesy of Monique

On February 15th, the Toronto MOBilizers took to Nathan Phillips and Yonge & Dundas Square to spread some post-Valentine's Day love by giving away free hugs and selling We Are Love buttons to raise money for our water project in Llullin Totoras, Ecuador!

Photo Courtesy of Monique 

Photo Courtesy of Monique 

We had an amazing time brightening people's days and ended up making $72.82 plus an extra $5.25 in American from some friendly visitors to our city!

Photo Courtesy of Monique 

Photo Courtesy of Monique 

Photo Courtesy of Monique 

If you'd like to purchase some of the We Are Love buttons, they're selling for $2 until the end of the month and you also have the opportunity to buy them in bulk and sell them around your school, community or workplace to further support our fundraising endeavours! For more information, please email us at torontomobilizers@yahoo.ca!

Photo Courtesy of Monique 

In other news, the school that the MOBilizers have been funding in Llullin Totoras, Ecuador is finally finished! Several MOBilizers from across the country, including Toronto Leads Alice and Daniela have had the opportunity to help build this school which is now open and being used my the community! Congratulations and a sincere thank you for everyone who has helped contribute to this project and the work the MOBilizers have been able to do for Llullin over the past several years! It is greatly appreciated!

Photo Courtesy of Free The Children

Huge MOB love to everyone this month and we will see you with news about our year end event coming soon in March!

All the best from your Toronto MOB Leads!

Alice, Daniela, Dylan, Julia

We Stand Together!

Happy New Year!

On Saturday, January 12th the Toronto MOBilizers kicked 2013 off right by hosting an Aboriginal Awareness event at the Me To We Store in order to launch Free The Children's We Stand Together campaign. It was a great afternoon to bring the community together to learn more about the issues facing Canada's Aboriginal community.

The event kicked off with an excellent presentation by MOBilizer Nobu who spoke about the Ipperwash Crisis and continued with the screening of CBC's 8th Fire documentary Indigenous In The City which discusses the many issues that are facing Aboriginals living in urban areas today due to the lasting effects of historical injustices like residential schooling and land claims. We ended the afternoon feeling informed and inspired to learn more after hearing MOBilizer Jordan's amazing performance of the Ed Sheeran song Lego House.

The event was a great time despite some technical difficulties and we were able to raise money for our MOB village of Llullin Totoras, Ecuador through a raffle of prizes generously donated by the Me To We Store and Starbucks!

Thanks to everyone who worked on this event and came out to enjoy it!

To learn more about Free The Children's commitment to Aboriginal issues please visit http://www.freethechildren.com/get-involved/campaigns/we-stand-together/

We'll see you next month for our We Are Love Campaign!
MAD MOB LOVE
Alice, Daniela, Dylan and Julia