Submitted by Jack Wilson
As the custodian of the Assiniboine Forest:
- the club annually supports the Green team (summer employment for youth aged 15 to 29 years in community development projects),
- is funding a report on a forest usage study, and
- planning an interpretive centre.
- Provides four bursaries ($1000 each) for local High School students
- Sends 4 students to RYLA (to include 2 through Bear Clan in 2019)
- Plans to send a student to Adventures in Agriculture
- International projects - ShelterBox, Ripple Effect, Polio Plus (with additional funding from the Rotary Club of Charleswood Charitable Foundation – RCCCF)
- Westgrove School – literacy special projects, running shoe program, community garden & appreciation lunch
- Westgrove adult education program (separate from the school program)
- Urban Stable (provides equine facilitated learning to youth at risk in grades 5-12)
- STARS Air Ambulance
- World peace scholar program
Next Manitoba Club:
WINNIPEG DOWNTOWN SEEKS GLOBAL GRANT PROJECTS IN BANGLADESH AND SOUTH AFRICA AND INVOLVED IN HONOURING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Submitted by Strini ReddyThe Winnipeg Downtown club is an international partner in two new Global Grant projects: