WestJet’s Gift of Flight - BGC Canada

This year, BGC Canada is celebrating 10 years with WestJet.

To highlight our incredible 10-year partnership with WestJet Cares for Kids, we created a video that tells the story of flying for the first time, an experience that many of our Club youth experience every year, thanks to WestJet.

The video follows Legacy, a youth from the Indigenous Initiatives program at BGC Calgary, and her new friends Zack, Janelle, and James from BGC Red Deer & District Club, on a flight to Ottawa. They were just a few of the young people who were able to attend our 2017 National Youth Conference thanks to WestJet Cares for Kids.

To date, the video has been viewed over 150,000 times!

Check out some of these behind-the-scenes photos:

Filming Legacy on a longboard for our WestJet video

Wing of a WestJet plane, flying

▲(photo credit: Conor M – BGC Calgary, Indigenous Initiatives)▲

Youth holding a Welcome to Get Loud 2017 sign at the Ottawa airport

Filming the youth from our WestJet video

Youth greeting each other at the Ottawa airport

Youth and staff from Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary, Indigenous Initiatives