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Looking for youth volunteers
Posted on July 13, 2011 at 10:18am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Kiwassa Neighbourhood House has recently started a new group for youth called the Northeast Youth Action Committee. The goal of the committee is to create a youth-driven group which will identify and carry out community development projects in the Hastings- Sunrise Neighbourhood.
The youth who are currently involved have identified the environment and issues of food sustainability as important to youth in this community, so it will be the focus of our first project. We…
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Hi Katie,
I was reading your blog yesterday, and was very glad to see what you're doing.
Thanks for joining the youth group. As you'll see, we haven't really done much with youth, so your ideas would be most welcome.
http://www.villagevancouver.ca/group/vvyouthgroup (You'll be able to see the contents on the Youth page if you're signed into the website.)
I hope things are going well at Kiwassa.
Cheers,
Ross
VV convenor