Youth Connections: 2004-2005 Funded Projects

Thu, Sep 20, 2007

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Sparking Your World
Fall 2004 (Amount granted: $280)
A group of students from Grant Park High School recruited volunteers and organized a series of musical performances for Winnipeg seniors.

Dakota Collegiate (Operation Rudolph)
December 2004 (Amount granted: $1000)
Dakota’s Black & Gold Society planned and hosted a Christmas party for children from low-income areas surrounding their high school. This was their fourth year of Youth Connections funding.

Kelvin High School (Kelvin Bridges Initiative)
December 2004 (Amount granted: $1000)
Over 150 high school students participated in planning and hosting their fifth annual Christmas party, inviting all 250 students from Dufferin School to spend a morning playing games, making crafts, and having fun at Kelvin High School .

Prairie Outdoor Weekend Adventure Race
November 2004 (Amount granted: $1000)
Former Kelvin and Grant Park High School students planned a team- and awareness -building event to develop leadership skills and educate participants about the issue of homelessness.

St. James Collegiate (Brooklands Literacy Project)
February 2005 (Amount granted: $680)
St. James students who live in the Brooklands area of Winnipeg returned to the elementary school in their neighborhood to cook breakfast and read to the children there. They left each child with a book of their own.

Gordon Bell High School (Outreach Program)
February/March 2005 (Amount granted: $397)
Gordon Bell’s Outreach Group organized a series of activities that were aimed at providing a sense of connection between ESL and Canadian students, enhancing the school community, and building cultural awareness.

Miles Macdonell Collegiate (Friends Around the World)
January – May 2005 (Amount granted: $512)
Miles Mac’s Friendship Committee designed their project to help ESL students feel welcome and part of the school community through lunch time and after school activities.

Victor Mager Boys & Girls Club (Multicultural Celebration)
March 2005 (Amount granted: $1000)
Regular members of the Victor Mager Winnipeg Boys & Girls Club invited community members to an event in celebration of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The event included multicultural performances and a buffet featuring ethnic dishes representative of the St. Vital community. This was the third time that Youth Connections has funded their project.

Collège Churchill (Springtime in Paris )
April 2005 (Amount granted: $300)
To encourage fellow students to speak French outside of the classroom and to highlight aspects of French-Canadian culture, students organized and hosted cultural events at their school, including a community talent show.

Kelvin High School ( Camp Ooga Booga)
March 2005 (Amount granted: $1000)
A core group of students, assisted by another 15 – 20 of their peers, offered a free day camp for low-income families during spring break. Approximately 45 children attended this camp, which has now been operating for two years.

Miles Macdonell Collegiate (For a Better Tomorrow)
May/June 2005 (Amount granted: $1000)
Students in Miles Mac’s Career Quest program provided free labor to repair a home owned by a low-income resident in their community. Youth Connections funding helped them to pay for supplies such as paint, lumber and landscaping material.

P.A.S.S. Youth Committee (Aboriginal Youth Conference)
June 2005 (Amount granted: $1000)
Youth members of the Selkirk, MB P.A.S.S. (Promoting Aboriginal Student Success) Committee organized and hosted their fourth youth conference, an annual celebration of aboriginal cultures that focuses on showcasing successful aboriginal students and encouraging youth to stay in school.

Southeast Education Centre (Cultural Awareness Day)
June 2005 (Amount granted: $1000)
Senior High students at this aboriginal high school hosted several hundred students and community members for a day of performances and activities designed to connect the school to their larger community and help students to celebrate aboriginal culture.

Camp Pinkham ( Kelvin High School )
August 2005 (Amount granted: $1000)
The organizers of Kelvin’s Camp Ooga Booga (see above) organized and hosted another day camp for a week in late August. The day camp was designed to provide structured – but fun – educational activities for children to help them review what they’d learned in school the previous year and prepare them for another school year.

Churchill High School (Women’s Wellness Project)
Grant: July 2005; Project: Fall 2005 (Amount granted: $1000)
A small group of female students received funding that they will use to put on a series of workshops and activities on nutrition, stress management, depression, anxiety, personal safety and body image.

Since 2000, the Youth Connections Council has funded more than 100 youth-led projects, granting more than $80,000! For some examples of the kinds of projects we’ve funded in the past, check out these pages:

 

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