About Camellia Delivers
Our Mission
Camellia Delivers is a registered not-for-profit organization working to make community support more practical, organized, and accessible. Our mission is to collect, prepare, and support the distribution of essential resources for individuals and communities facing homelessness, housing insecurity, and barriers to basic needs. We support local organizations by preparing kits, supplies, and resources that make it easier for them to serve the people who rely on their work. Through hygiene kits, food support, seasonal care packages, oral health supplies, winter essentials, and other practical resources, Camellia Delivers helps strengthen community organizations and extend their impact. We aim to bring communities together in a way that can function both inside and outside of university spaces. Through direct not-for-profit initiatives, student-led clubs, partnerships, sponsorships, and volunteer involvement, Camellia Delivers connects people, resources, and organizations to create practical support where it is needed most.
What Community Care Looks Like
We know community care is not one thing. Sometimes it feels like putting together hygiene kits. Sometimes it looks like assembling seasonal support packages. Sometimes it looks like getting students together to gather supplies for local organizations. At its core, Camellia Delivers is about creating clear and structured ways for individuals to contribute to their communities in a meaningful way.
Direct Not-for-Profit Work:
Camellia Delivers is able to be the leader of its own community-based initiatives, as a not-for-profit. This may involve organizing resource drives, preparing care packages, building partnerships, coordinating volunteers, supporting outreach efforts, and collaborating with businesses or community organizations to collect and prepare essential supplies. Such efforts enable Camellia Delivers to respond to community needs directly, and to support resource-based projects outside the university club system.
Our Two-Part Model
Student-Led University Clubs:
At the same time, Camellia Delivers backs the development of university clubs that have local impact in their respective communities. These clubs are student-run branches who can plan donation drives, packaging events, awareness initiatives, fundraising events and volunteer opportunities through their own campuses. Every club brings students together to support the city or region of their university.
How Camellia Delivers & University Clubs Connect:
The connection between Camellia Delivers and the university clubs is based on support, sponsorship and a shared purpose. Clubs can run their own events and initiatives but Camellia Delivers can help enhance that work through offering guidance, partnership support, resource planning, sponsorship opportunities and a larger not-for-profit structure that is linked to community care. This model enables both sides to make a difference. Being a not-for-profit, Camellia Delivers can continue to grow its own partnerships and resource-based initiatives, while university clubs can rally students within their own schools to address local needs. Together these systems create a web of community involvement without requiring every initiative to be done in the same way.
Meet the Founders
Aaliyah Ariella
Aaliyah Ariella is part of the founding leadership of Camellia Delivers and the original idea behind the organization. Outside of Camellia, she serves as the BUSU President for the 2026/27 academic year at Brock University. Within Camellia Delivers, Aaliyah helps govern the organization’s development, direction, and long-term structure as it grows from an idea into an incorporated not-for-profit.
Director of Camellia Delivers
Jonathan Kehinde
Director of Camellia Delivers & President of Camellia Brock
Jonathan Kehinde is one of the founders of Camellia Delivers and supports the development of Camellia Brock and the organization’s student branch model. Through his work with Camellia Brock, Jonathan is helping build the first university branch at Brock University while supporting plans to expand the model into multiple university chapters across Ontario.
Director of Camellia Delivers & Vice-President of Camellia Brock
Alexis Mitchell
Alexis Mitchell is one of the founders of Camellia Delivers and supports the managerial development of Camellia Brock and the organization’s student branch model. Her work includes helping organize Camellia Brock’s early structure, supporting communication, assisting with emails and coordination, and helping build the systems needed for the first university branch to operate effectively. Alongside Jonathan, Alexis is also helping shape a branch model that can expand into multiple Camellia university chapters in the future.
Where We Started
Camellia was the proposed as a club Aaliyah Ariella, who wanted to create something that could bring people together around a meaningful purpose: supporting communities impacted by homelessness and housing insecurity.
What started as an idea quickly grew into a larger vision. When Aaliyah met Jonathan Kehinde and Alexis Mitchell, it was to build something that would outlive one event, one semester, one graduating class. We wanted to build an organization that could offer students and community members a more clear way to act and to develop partnerships and support systems that could continue to grow over time.
An early vision was informed by a common belief that community support should not be disconnected or temporary. We wanted Camellia Delivers to be a place where people could come together, bring what they could, and be part of work that was practical, organized and connected to real community needs.
The first step was making that vision a reality with Camellia Brock. It’s based at Brock University in St. Catharines, and is the beginning of Camellia Delivers’ connection to student leadership, campus involvement and local community impact in the Niagara region.
That original idea is taking shape today as Camellia Delivers becomes a registered not-for-profit organization, based on care, collaboration and long-term community support. What began as a discussion about how to help others has evolved into a movement to connect people, resources and communities in a more permanent way.