Delegate Bag Donations (January 28, 2008)

Recycle, renew, sustain. PDAC continues to provide an earth-friendly convention bag to delegates. This year’s bag is light-weight and durable, and has been made with 100% post-consumer recycled materials — yesterday’s discarded water bottles and yogurt containers.

As a new initiative in 2008, PDAC will offer delegates the option of donating their bags at the end of the convention. Frontier College, a national volunteer-based literacy organization will collect and distribute convention bags for use by children and youth in their homework clubs, reading circles, and in aboriginal summer literacy camps in communities across Canada. Founded in 1899, Frontier College began sending student volunteers to the frontiers of Canada — to logging camps, mining towns and rail gangs — to teach workers literacy skills. Today, with the help of thousands of volunteers, the college achieves its mission for literacy by working with people across Canada, responding to their learning needs and encouraging lifelong learning.

Proud sponsors of this initiative are Canaccord Adams, The Grosso Group, Breakwater Resources Ltd. and Silver Wheaton.