The Hope Boxing Club: Green Door

Constable Guercy Dept: The sign on the scuffed green door says it all: Club de Boxe l Espoir . The Hope Boxing Club, according to Globe and Mail. He came up with the idea of a boxing club and asked local civic officials for a subsidy. They told him there was no way they d give money to teach young toughs how to fight. So Constable Guercy called his project Better growth through sports. He got a $4,000 grant, bought gloves and ropes, secured a room at a local high school and launched a six-month project and each day after class, kids from one of Montreal s grittiest neighbourhoods come together to prove themselves, and prove the doubters wrong. For Carlos and Mohamed, Karim and Kenny, a cement-floor room off a dreary high-school hallway has become a haven with a boxing ring in the heart of it. In 2005, a Montreal police officer named Evens Guercy thought there had to be a better way than hand out $118 loitering fines to young minorities in Montreal s troubled St. Michel district who had no place to go. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.