Personal Stories

When he was just 8, Danny (not his real name) was so unhappy at his old school near Summerside, Prince Edward Island that he couldn’t even stay in the classroom. His last day there, a cold one in late fall, he was out walking around the school for two and a half hours before anybody called his mom to let her know he was...

Before the Power Start program, it was a single hour in the 24 hours of a weekday that had so many families struggling to get their children to school in three Elementary schools in Kamloops, B.C. For many reasons some kids were missing as many as 50-60 days of school a year, says Jake Schmidt, principal of the 240-pupil ele...

If Brandon Funk, 18, tries really hard, he can imagine what his life would have been like without the Boys and Girls Club of Westaskiwin.He doesn’t think he would be at university now, on his way to being a teacher. He wouldn’t have played basketball at high school, or been one of the presidents of his Grade 12 cl...