Here at Brock University Students’ Union we challenge the students of Brock to continue their efforts in the total amount raised in our Shinerama campaign! Brock's Shinerama campaign has the potential to be the biggest ever, but only with the participation and enthusiasm of ALL Brock students!

Continuing the Tradition

This year Brock students have accepted the challenge of raising money and awareness and are commited to giving it their all so that one day CF will equal CURE FOUND!

First a little history behind Shinerama. Shinerama is Canada's largest post-secondary fundrasier involving students over 60 university and college campuses across Canada. While Shinerama began in 1964 as a shoe-shining campaign during Orientation week, it has since grown to include a wide variety of shining and non-shining activities under the Shinerama banner. In previous years, Brock was able to have over 800 volunteers participating on Shine Day, joining over 35,000 students nationwide. Together, students shined shoes, washed cars, co-ordinated raffles and barbeques, as well as numerous other events over St Catharines, Thorold and Niagara Falls in support of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and their goal to help find a cure for this deadly disease.

Why We Get Involved

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common fatal, inherited disease of young Canadians, mainly affecting the lungs and digestive system. In Canada, one in 25 Canadians carries a defective version of the gene and one in 3,600 babies in this country has CF. Since Shinerama began, the median age of survival for people with CF had risen from three years of age to 37 years of age. However, it remains fatal in all cases.

For 45 years, students have been planning a day in September so that individuals with cystic fibrosis could plan the rest of their lives... Help make this difference donate or volunteer today!

Donations to the Brock Shinerama campaign can be made online. For more information on cystic fibrosis please visit cysticfibrosis.ca.