Benjamin
Elora, Ontario
Community Box: Addictions Edition
Featured Creator, March 2020
The individual featured is a youth leader between the age of 14-18 overcoming addiction at Portage Ontario. For his privacy, his face will not appear in any photographs and his name has been substituted with Benjamin.
Benjamin’s Story
Throughout my addiction, I was a very two-faced person. There was high me and there was sober me.
I wasn’t worried about it much, but that’s because I wasn’t thinking at the same time. You’re just a different person when you’re addicted.
I’ve been working on producing and audio engineering. I would love to be famous for making music. I could put my emotions and creativity into it and it’s almost therapeutic to me. It’s in my hands and I can do whatever and make whatever.
For anyone living with addictions, honestly, a lot of what you’re thinking is just mind alterations of what’s going on. In my addiction, I couldn’t think of a life without drugs.
The Community Box:
Addictions Edition
ABOUT
Our fifth Community Box was created by two youth leaders (ages 14-18) overcoming addictions at Portage Ontario, a youth rehabilitation centre in Elora.
Portage Ontario
To learn more about Portage and what they do, please click here.
PROFIT SHARING
Instead of our proceeds going directly to the Creator, the profits will instead be shared with the Portage Community as part of a leadership fund to use on a fun activity!
EMPOWER OUR CREATORS
Click the button below to purchase his Community Box!
The Community Box:
We partnered with two teenagers from Portage Ontario, a live-in rehabilitation centre for youth ages 14-18, to design a Crewneck Sweater that is both meaningful and personal to their journeys with substance addictions.
The sweaters are 100% Combed Ring Spun (meaning they feel incredibly soft), ethically manufactured by Just Like Hero, and embroidered locally in Waterloo, Ontario. The sweaters are perfect for a weekend outfit, and can also be stylized to suit almost any social occasion.
The fit is unisex, and we recommend ordering a size smaller if you are stuck between two sizes! Sizing chart can be found here.
Creators:
Tobias and Benjamin are the two youth creators behind this sweater. The design is a reminder to our community that ‘Addicts are People too’.
Empowerment:
Creators are typically paid $50 for their time, earn 5%-12% from every sale, and 50% of net profits.
Since our two Creators are currently living in rehab at Portage Ontario, their portions of the profit share will instead be donated to Portage for use as a leadership fund for their entire community.
Click here to learn more about the Addictions Box.