Sandwich For A Story Works With Youth To Help Them Find Ways to Help Their Community!
4 years ago, we started Sandwich for a Story as a way to get out in the community to break down stigmas between the homeless and the rest of society! Now are goal is to help youth find innovative ways to make a difference!
Sandwich for a Story has interacted with over four thousand homeless individuals, and connected with people in over 26 countries through speaking engagements and the web.
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Sandwich for a Story Wants to Help Youth Make a Difference In Their Communities with Fun and Innovative Ways!
When we started working on our project four years ago, we never imagined what it would become! By leveraging our backgrounds in technology and the social work space we were able to develop a powerful solution to help people connect with those who are without a home. We want to help inspire youth to solve importance and pressing problems in their communities now!
Have us come in to speak with your students and let us show them how they can quickly develop a solution to solve their communities most pressing problems!
Our initiative, Sandwich for a Story, has interacted with over four thousand homeless individuals, and connected with people in over 26 countries through speaking engagements and the web. Our organization has also been featured multiple local and national media outlets including Global News, CTV News, CBC RadioOne, and TEDx. Recently we were selected to be represented at the Millennium Campus Conference at UN Headquarters in 2015 and the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference and the Forbes Top 30 Under 30 Conference in 2016.
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Our Team
Sam Sawchuk
Co-Founder, Director of Program Development
Sam Sawchuk is currently the Co-Founder & Director of Program Development for Sandwich for a Story. Sam has significant expertise as a career coach through his work in the technology industry at Hired in San Francisco where he trained candidates to prepare for their interview's with some of the world's leading technology companies. Sam also has worked with Ayogo Health, Uber, Tembo Education, and Startup Calgary.
Evan Mitchell Beck
Co-Founder, Director of Communications & Outreach
Evan is a passionate advocate for mental health and homeless issues. He has professional experience working closely on these issues with international students, homeless individuals in Canada and impoverished populations in Uganda. His mission is to ensure that an inclusive psychological approach is taken when members of the SFS community are communicating with homeless individuals.
Alex Kim
Director of Content & Media Engagement
Through his studies, Alex has developed an infectious interest in the discourse of homelessness. Combined with his first hand experiences gained through years of experience meeting with people on the streets with Sandwich For a Story, he hopes to further the discourse of homelessness into a more open discussion through content syndication.
The stories & conversations that helped us form the idea...
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Media Coverage
Sandwich for a Story has been featured in a variety of local and national coverage & has been invited to attend some of the world's leading conferences.
Under25 Club
September, 2015
During the summer of 2013, Evan Beck was visiting Sam Sawchuk in Vancouver. They wanted to get together and figure out unique ways to help those in need. They toyed around with a ton of different ideas, but they all seemed far too complex and they were clearly missing something. “An element of humanity seemed to be absent because through all the jargon and bureaucracy, it seems many organizations often forget that the homeless are well… people,” says Sam.
CGI U 2016
April 2016
More than 1,000 students from around the world will come together this weekend at UC Berkeley to discuss pressing global issues, and to dig deep for creative solutions to these challenges.
Under30 Summit
October 2016
The Forbes Under 30 Summit brings together more than 5,000 global entrepreneurs and game changers.
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