The Connaught Youth Centre will be able to launch a new Boys & Girls Club, thanks to a generous donation from a local community support fund.
The Prince George-based society has been given $20,000 from the Vanderhoof and Districts CO-OP, one of 11 organizations to receive funding from the petroleum company for 2016.
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CYC Executive Director Catharine Kendall says the money will go a long way for at-risk children in the next year.
“If you know the neighbourhood and the geography here downtown, we’re right next to the VLA, it’s an at-risk neighbourhood. So, to be able to really enhance all the programs that we run out of this facility is huge.”
Bud Pye is the CO-OP’s President of the Board of Directors.
He says investing in young kids is a gesture he holds near and dear to his heart and believes this donation will inspire them to fight through life’s struggles.
“It gives them something to want to go further; it gets them off the street and it keeps them busy. I think that’s really important and we need to do more than that.”
According to the CYC, 60% of their kids are under the age of 18, and they predict the number will go even higher once the clubs are implemented.
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