(Submitted photo/Kamloops RCMP).

By Aaron Schulze

Pink Shirt Day

Kamloops partaking in Pink Shirt Day to bring an end to bullying

Feb 24, 2021 | 9:55 AM

KAMLOOPS — Many throughout the City of Kamloops are wearing pink and joining the stand against bullying.

Kamloops students, school staff, sheriffs and police officers partook in Pink Shirt Day on Wednesday (Feb. 24) to show the community where they stand on stopping bullying.

“Pink Shirt Day is a reminder of what the district strives for every day, which is having programs and services that encourage healthy self-esteem and relationships, a positive sense of belonging, as well as teaching kindness, compassion and empathy,” Kamloops-Thompson School District Director of Instruction Vessy Mochikas said.

Pink Shirt Day is an international anti-bullying campaign. It started in 2007 when a Nova Scotia high school student was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. Two students at the high school organized a campaign to give out pink T-shirts to all students as a symbol of protest.

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