Youth Charity

Foster Homes Dept: About 15 years ago, I received money from a youth charity to give to a youth charity of my choice. I might have given it to groups I had already worked with or knew. But this was a chance again to ask the most basic question: Given all the kids who have needs, who needs help the most?, according to The Star. We ve given out more than 140 scholarships in the years since and some young people who have grown up in a mix of broken families, foster homes and group homes deliver a report to the Ontario legislature Monday. Their lives often don t turn out as well as those of other youth. They think legislators should know that. I asked the advice of people in foundations and other community groups. The most disadvantaged of the disadvantaged, they agreed, were kids from foster homes and group homes. What these kids needed was a chance, in their words, to break the cycle of a family history of poverty and abuse that often went back generations. Their best chance to do this? To go to university or college. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.