Beginning August 5 and running through to August 13, Odd Job Humanitarians are offering their services to local residents of Victoria in an effort to raise money for cancer research. During the Week to End Cancer, Oak Bay high school graduate Scott Baker is spearheading the campaign that will offer handyman and odd job services as a way to solicit monetary donations for cancer research -- instead of just asking people for money. The Victoria News has published a nice feature about Scott Baker. He started raising money for the BC Cancer Foundation when he was in 9th grade. In his senior year, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Baker and fellow Odd Job Humanitarians are college students with little disposable income but lots of brawn, brains and big hearts. They state that no job is too odd or too small - and they will clean windows, dig ditches, even help sort through an attic and organize memorabilia. Sounds like a win-win proposition.
If you live in the area and would like to support cancer research and need a few odd jobs done, visit Victoria News feature story Volunteers clean for cancer to contact Scott Baker and the Odd Job Humanitarians.
