More than 20,000 B.C. students are being rewarded for taking action in their communities with a concert they’ll never forget at the 2016 WE Day Vancouver event. The year’s line-up includes Serena Ryder, Paula Abdul and Lilly Singh among many others.

The Government of British Columbia is providing $702,000 to the Vancouver school district to repair, upgrade and improve five of its facilities to make sure students, teachers and staff have comfortable and refreshed places to learn and work.

 Students, teachers and staff at Fort St. James Secondary school in the Nechako Lakes school district will benefit from $223,300 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.          

Students, teachers and staff at École Côte Du Soleil in the Conseil Scolaire Francophone school district will benefit from $151,540 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.

Students, teachers and staff at Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in the Nisga’a school district will benefit from $110,157 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.

Students, teachers and staff at Dease Lake school in the Stikine school district will benefit from $110,160 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.

Students, teachers and staff at Port Hardy Secondary school in the Vancouver Island North school district will benefit from $717,000 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.

Students, teachers and staff at A.L. Fortune Secondary school in the North Okanagan-Shuswap school district will benefit from $196,876 in provincial School Enhancement Program funding.