OUR MISSION
Promoting Activism Amongst Youth.
Our mission statement centers around education, awareness, and empowerment.
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1. Education: By becoming a platform where information on various topics can be easily accessed, we hope to provide a location where anyone can learn more about what's going on in our world.
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2. Awareness: With further resources and information on pre-existing organizations/initiatives, we want to support youth with passion and curiosity to find ways to learn more and get involved!
3. Empowerment: Our future goal is to provide training and resources to youth, so smaller groups can begin to present and further educate others. ​
As we grow, we have many exciting plans like starting a website and blog with first-hand accounts, facilitating awareness presentations, and holding workshops where we can help demonstrate how to continue with this initiative independently.
These are just a few ways that we hope to educate, and empower youth in our community.
Our Origins
A Ripple Effect In Action.
Our origins began in the form of awareness presentations at local middle and elementary schools. Creating these presentations were quite a learning experience and the feedback from students and teachers made all our work worth it.
After a few years of successful presentations, we decided to host a Summer Leadership Training session in partnership with RCSM. This session was incredibly impactful and truly exemplified how awareness and education can make a difference. This is where we developed our team today.
As well, at this point, we hoped to attach a real name to our accomplishments and our goals. In the pandemic scenario, we began brainstorming ways that we could continue sharing this message of activism through online education. We originated from the will to speak to a couple of youth willing to listen. This single action eventually expanded to thousands of kids across the Lower Mainland.
We hope to show that even one voice can create a ripple of change!
Who Are We?
A closer look at the individuals behind the Ripple Effect.
Cynthia Li
Founder/Director of Outreach
Cynthia is a grade 12 student who is inspired by the impact of knowledge. She believes that education is one of our greatest assets in creating change and hopes to share credible information about important global issues through The Ripple Effect! Cynthia leads the Red Cross Club at her school and is also involved with the music program. She enjoys dabbling in reading, is passionate about breakfast, and is always looking to make connections with new people.
Grace Kim
Founder/Director of Design
As a grade 12 student, Grace is always striving to learn more about the world around her. Her passion for education and empowering others is what pushed her to found The Ripple Effect. Grace is also co-president of Debate Club and hopes to spark engaging, educating discussions, while encouraging others to share their voices. She enjoys reading and writing in her spare time, and can't help but get involved in various fundraisers at her school!
Amrit Rai
Founder/ Director of Content
Amrit is a fun-loving grade 11 student who strives for success and happiness. She loves learning new things and sharing her knowledge with others, which is what drives her ambition in The Ripple Effect. She volunteers and is part of various organizations within her school to stay involved and aware of all that goes on in her community. Amrit enjoys reading, meeting new people, listening to music and drinking way too much coffee. Her tenacity and love for aiding in humanitarian issues is what motivates her the most.
Aaliyah Khan
Founder/Director of Events
Aaliyah is a Grade 11 student who has always seen education as the most important thing that holds us all together. Outside of school, Aaliyah loves to volunteer in her community, write creative short stories, and try fun new recipes. The founding of Ripple Effect stemmed from her realizing that finding unbiased, factual information on important issues is much harder than it should be; that is the problem that the Ripple Effect was made to solve!
Ashki Shkur
Founder/Director of Content
Ashki is a grade 11 student who loves to learn and give back to her community through volunteering. Ashki is apart of many clubs and organizations at her school like Green Club, the Youth Voices of East Van council, her school student council, and many more. Ashki has always wanted to spread awareness about different issues in the world, which is why she decided to be apart of The Ripple Effect because she wanted to use her voice to stand up for ones who are ignored.
Nainika Banger
Founder/Director of Events
Nainika is currently a grade 11 student. She is an optimistic and caring person who loves to share her positivity with others. Nainika is involved with volunteer organizations in her community, but specifically enjoys volunteering with young youth. Her drive comes from meeting new people, learning new things from them, and sharing those things with others. This has led her to be a part of The Ripple Effect to help share valuable, informative, and reliable information. Nainika loves to use her free time to bake things to share with her friends and family.
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