Get Involved Week 2010: 63.8 per cent increase in participants

Although student life and development fell short of its goal for 300 participants for this year’s Get Involved Week, there has been a 63.8 per cent increase over last year in the number of people involved.

Kwantlen’s annual community-building charity event, which took place Sept. 20-25, had a total of 131 people involved in 32 different activities. Each participant was required to donate a minimum of $10 for Free The Children.

According to Kurt Penner, student life and development coordinator, that is an improvement from the 80 participants last year, 20 employees and 60 students.

Of this year’s 131 participants, 95 were students, 21 were employees, 13 were community members and two were alumni. That is a 58.3 per cent increase in student participation from last year. The Surrey campus had 81 participants, 61.8 per cent of all who got involved, while Langley had the fewest number of participants: two.

The final donation total came to $1,241, $491 more than what was made in 2009.