Canadian Clubs Collaborate for Greater Service Impact

Canadian Quota clubs discovered a recipe for success in collaboration. In 2007, clubs throughout Canada pooled resources and shared the workload to accomplish two major service projects—one to help Canadian soldiers, the other to promote hearing health.

In November 2007, clubs across the country collaborated to create boxes for service men and women deployed during the holidays. Quota volunteers, with the help of enthusiastic fifth and sixth graders, filled and wrapped gift packets for soldiers deployed from Canadian Forces Base Borden in Ontario. Each box included a Quota Cares bear, courtesy of the Ottawa Quota club. In Alberta, the Wainwright Quota club organized a box project for soldiers from CFB Wainwright, Canada's largest army training facility.

Healthy Hearing Campaign
During Quota Cares Month last March, Canadian clubs worked together to distribute 26,000 ear plugs emblazoned with the Quota International logo. Each club attached contact information on the packets they distributed in their own community and got to work in malls, shopping centers, and more to spread the word on healthy hearing.

The Wainwright Quota club placed baskets of ear plugs in schools, offices, clinics, and pharmacies, so residents could help themselves. Quota volunteers also handed out ear plugs to folks doing yard work, as the noise of lawn mowers and other motorized equipment contributes to hearing loss. The Wainwright club continued efforts into spring, with ear plug distribution at a trade show in April and a parade in June.

Members of the Penticton Quota club in British Columbia handed out ear plugs wherever they went during Quota Cares Month. The largest effort took place at the Women in Business luncheon, which raised Quota's profile in the influential group.

Low Cost, High Impact

In Ontario, the Barrie Quota club rented the community booth at the city's largest mall and distributed ear plugs with information cards and Quota brochures each Sunday in March. The club distributed 5,000 ear plugs in all, many to women who said their ears needed protection from snoring husbands. Meanwhile, the Orillia Quota club focused their distribution during Speech and Hearing Month in May. Volunteers prepared ear plug packets during club meetings in April and targeted spectators at local sports arenas and sporting events the following month.

Each packet of ear plugs costs only eight cents. Even with the addition of printed information and brochures, a healthy hearing campaign is a low-cost service project that offers high impact—recipients get a chance at better hearing, and Quota raises its visibility in the community.

To learn more about Quota's Healthy Hearing Campaign and ear plug distribution, click here.

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