Give Love Feel Good 2.0

Like many cities across Canada, Saint John welcomed a large group of refugees to our community in 2017/2018, and we read with concern the newspaper coverage of the challenges they face when moving to a new country.

So for 2018 we decided to put a new twist on our #GiveLoveFeelGood project, creating postcards, and asking Saint Johners to send a short and sweet note to members of our newcomer population.

We partnered again with Anne McShane at the Feel Good Store, and with her help distributed the cards far and wide. The cards were even embraced by a local school that had challenged their students to complete a hundred acts of kindness!

We dropped off the completed cards to our friends at the YMCA Newcomer Connections program. They shared the cards with their clients, and used them as teaching tools in their English language training classes.

About the Give Love Feel Good campaign:
Give Love Feel Good is an annual charitable campaign organized by Duke Creative Collective in partnership with The Feel Good Store and other businesses in Saint John, New Brunswick. The campaign changes from year to year, but consistently taps into the idea that doing something small for someone else can have a big positive impact. Past campaigns have asked Saint Johners to recognize people or organizations working to make Saint John a better place; encouraged Saint Johners to send a Valentine message to the newcomers in the YMCA’s English language classes; collected mitten donations for the Romero House; and collected children’s books to build the home libraries of kids attending priority neighbourhood elementary schools.