Design for Change

This one idea/one week project was inspired by the Riverside School’s Design For Change project. This is a world-changing contest for children, and a children-changing contest for the world. To create a positive impact in the community and inspire change, we work with schools in villages, towns and cities in Canada to conduct world-changing contests for children.

The contest

Children (aged 8 to 14) are given a simple task to design a solution for a problem in their community and make it happen! They work in teams of five with an adult mentor, identify a local problem, brainstorm solutions, come up with an action plan, and then implement it – thus changing their world one step at a time!

The purpose

- Help children believe & understand that they matter.

- Help them discover that they can become drivers of change.

- Help them believe in themselves & know, “I Can!”

In Canada, Vretta is a key promoter of the ‘Design for Change’ challenge.
Click here to join the Design For Change challenge