 For the year for 2006-2007 Nepean Key Club�s Executives were Genevieve McNicol, Guxin Lin, Tessa McNicol and Erin Lush. Our Kiwanis advisor, Buck Madden and our faculty advisor, Tracey Friendship were tremendous with providing us with the support and guidance to make the year another success.
Our Key Club volunteering started in the fall with Dovercourt�s fall festival, Dovercourt�s haunted house, Run for the Cure and the grand opening of the Royal Ottawa Hospital, continuing our tradition of being active and involved with improving our community.
After our school was visited by Craig Kielburger, the founder of Free the Children, we decided that this year we would raise fund to build a school in Kenya. Education is the best cure against poverty; and through working with Free the Children, we are able to aid this cause through the efforts of building a school in such a place in dire need.
 In November we decided to organize our first event. The event took place December 13th and it was called Diamond Smugglers. Diamond Smugglers is an interactive game in which everyone at the event is given a secret identity and they must inconspicuously find their team mates and lead their team to victory. The event was themed on James Bond � Casino Royal. We had the cafeteria decorated in to the nines; we severed mocktails, and had a live poker game going on. The event raised over $700 for the build a school project.
The KEY Club continued to be active in our community, and just before the holidays our members set out to volunteer at the Parkinson�s Society Holiday Dinner. We sung Christmas carols, wore reindeer ears, took coats and served food. After that we volunteered at Mothercraft�s Gingerbread house building fundraiser, where we helped setup the enormous hall and build ginger bread houses. A festive time was had by both volunteers and participants. At the end of January our volunteers battled the cold and volunteered at Dovercourt�s Winter Carnival where we made cotton candy and hot chocolate, supervised the camp fire and trampoline and had a great time.
On March first 200 students at our school took a 24 hour vow of silence. All of our Key Club executives played a large role in organizing of event. The event was to increase awareness of people in developing countries who do not have a voice in their societies and to raise money for the build-a-school project. The event raised approximately 1600 dollars.
 After a break for exams we launched into the planning of our biggest event of the year, our Annual Spaghetti Dinner. The event happened March 29th and required a month of thorough planning by roughly thirty of our members. Over 160 people came to the event and enjoy fresh pasta, homemade sauce, garlic bread, salad, fabulous desserts and unlimited starbucks coffee. We had two leading members of the Ottawa community come and talk at the event. They were born and went to school in Kenya and were therefore able to gives us a look at the wonderful ramifications building a school will inevitably have. The event was a huge success and we raised over 1600 dollars.
Two weeks later our key club ran a World Vision 30 hour famine. Over 40 student started the famine at nine am Friday April 13th, stayed overnight at the school and finished the famine at three pm the next day. The famine was an important experience that opened the eyes of all participants to the severity of hunger in impoverished countries. Most importantly the event rose over $8000 for world vision.
Even during the busy weeks before exams and summatives, our volunteers helped out at �youth action day� where we cleaned up the area around �Good Companions�. We met new people, had a great time and made a difference in our wonderful community.
We are proud to announce that this year our club, in coordination with various other clubs in the school, has been able to raise approximately 10, 000 dollars towards the build a school project. That is enough to build a school in the Maasai Mara in Kenya.
This year would have been possible without our dedicated volunteers who have shown that they not only have the desire to be the force of change in their school and community but rather the global community in which we live. Thank You!
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