The other night, while helping my parents hand out miniature bags of chips for Halloween, I noticed something beyond the lame costumes that was distinctly different than my experiences as a child. Amongst the 100 children who loudly banged at my parents door, was nary a single UNICEF box.
I recall walking door to door dressed as a robot in a box that once held a fridge and exhaust tubing on my limbs, bag in one hand, UNICEF box in the other. It acted as the perfect contrast to the greed of begging for and hoarding candies.
A 50-year-old Halloween tradition in Canada is about to come to an end as UNICEF has announced the cancellation of its orange box campaign.
After consulting with teachers and parents about its Halloween program, the United Nations Children's Fund said the time has come to put the cardboard boxes to rest. Apparently the resources required to count and roll the coin in said boxed is too great to preserve the program. According to UNICEF, in recent years, Canadians have donated an average of $3 million every Halloween through UNICEF's orange box campaign.
The annual loose change collection isn't worth the money that's amassed, said Evelyne Guindon, executive director for UNICEF Quebec.
"Coin is very labour-intensive," she said. "Rolling pennies is very labour-intensive, so obviously that was one of the things teachers reflected to us."
The decision doesn't mean UNICEF is backing away from efforts to get children interested in fundraising, said Guindon. Teachers will be given opportunities to organize educational activities, that include raising money for people in need.
Critics say the aid group has made the wrong decision.
Philip Robertson, an elementary school principal who oversees three schools on Quebec's Lower North Shore, says UNICEF is making a mistake in dropping the program.
"The kids feel good about what they've done," explained Robertson, "because UNICEF normally provides little educational units about why kids are bringing the orange boxes along with them when they're trick-or-treating, and what this money's going to be used for."
The program will continue in the United States, despite the fact that rolling American coins is as labour intensive as it is for their Canadian counterparts. I don't get it.
I recall walking door to door dressed as a robot in a box that once held a fridge and exhaust tubing on my limbs, bag in one hand, UNICEF box in the other. It acted as the perfect contrast to the greed of begging for and hoarding candies.
A 50-year-old Halloween tradition in Canada is about to come to an end as UNICEF has announced the cancellation of its orange box campaign.
After consulting with teachers and parents about its Halloween program, the United Nations Children's Fund said the time has come to put the cardboard boxes to rest. Apparently the resources required to count and roll the coin in said boxed is too great to preserve the program. According to UNICEF, in recent years, Canadians have donated an average of $3 million every Halloween through UNICEF's orange box campaign.
The annual loose change collection isn't worth the money that's amassed, said Evelyne Guindon, executive director for UNICEF Quebec.
"Coin is very labour-intensive," she said. "Rolling pennies is very labour-intensive, so obviously that was one of the things teachers reflected to us."
The decision doesn't mean UNICEF is backing away from efforts to get children interested in fundraising, said Guindon. Teachers will be given opportunities to organize educational activities, that include raising money for people in need.
Critics say the aid group has made the wrong decision.
Philip Robertson, an elementary school principal who oversees three schools on Quebec's Lower North Shore, says UNICEF is making a mistake in dropping the program.
"The kids feel good about what they've done," explained Robertson, "because UNICEF normally provides little educational units about why kids are bringing the orange boxes along with them when they're trick-or-treating, and what this money's going to be used for."
The program will continue in the United States, despite the fact that rolling American coins is as labour intensive as it is for their Canadian counterparts. I don't get it.
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Nonetheless, Halloween is an enjoyable time both for children and adults. It's common thought that adults use Halloween as a means of escaping from their daily ways. Women dress in whorish garb, while men mimic their douche-baggish role models who they criticize, but deep inside the recesses of their souls they love said douchery.
Two costumes I stumbled upon caught my eye:
The kid's facial expression seals it no?
Brilliant effort for this artsy fellow
The original work by Banksy
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