Grace Kang 2011 WE Day winner
Jan 19, 2012

Grace is a sixteen year old dreamer with a love for food, art, animals, and athletics. Born in South Korea, her family came to Canada when she was one years old and in her early years she discovered her knack for creating art and her passion for helping others. Her first volunteer experience was on an outreach in Toronto, Ontario, handing out bags of food to the homeless in the downtown area when she was only four or five. Nowadays she loves helping out in the community, coaching youth soccer, playing soccer and volleyball, and raising awareness for social justice issues. One of her dreams is to open a homeless shelter in the heart of every major city in Canada to help and motivate the homeless to get back on their feet.

At We Day Winnipeg, Grace spoke on behalf of her school and won a ten day trip for her, four friends, and a teacher to go to a developing country (either Kenya, India, Ecuador, Arizona/Mexico, or China) and volunteer within the community there. They hope to depart in the summer of 2012, knowing without a doubt this trip will make a great life-changing impact on their final year of high school. Their hopes are that with their experience and knowledge after going on this trip will empower them to motivate others in being more careful with everyday life choices and to educate others on the impact every individual has on their global environment.

In the future, Grace would like to pursue a career in medicine and become an emergency relief doctor. Someday she would also like to visit the Galapagos Islands and Australia because she is infatuated with exotic animals. Most of all, she would like to live in such a way that by the end of her life she would have used all her talents in serving others and there would be nothing left to spend, nothing that would be wasted. That is her truest dream and goal in life.