Milk Bag Bed Mats

Sharon is a retired teacher from the York Catholic District School Board. Her teaching career started in 1980 with 7 years in Special Ed. and primary grades in Richmond Hill schools and then she moved to her true love.... 27 years as a teacher-librarian in Unionville elementary schools.  She loved this role and called herself the grandparent of the school.  Like a grandparent, the students dropped in and out and she was able to play an influential role of promoting literacy and social justice with all students and staff in the school.

Prior to her retirement in 2013, she was becoming very involved with the milk bag project as well as fundraising for  Children of Hope Uganda and organization that was supported by Rotary groups in Canada, United States and Uganda.

Her first trip as a retiree was  to Uganda with Lorna Pitcher (founder of Children of Hope Uganda) to visit the school that she had been fundraising for .

During the first few years of retirement she was invited into numerous schools to either train students how to do milk bag weaving or to share the Children of Hope Uganda story.

At the present time divides her time between City Street Outreach fundraising or projects, acting as co -chair for Active Retired York Catholic Teachers and facilitating two retired teacher groups with milk bag weaving.