"Skateboarding is in my heart. Skateboarding helps me act better while at school. Skateboarding helps me learn tricks, which is like learning math or whatever."
These are the words of a Laraway youth applying for a Laraway Youth Grant. After learning the skill at school, he wanted to purchase his own skateboard. Learning to skateboard enhanced his self-confidence and provided opportunities to develop social skills while interacting with peers.
The Laraway Youth Grant Program is supported by donations to our Annual Appeal. Youth may apply for a grant once a year to fund an item or experience that helps them grow as a person. There's a one-page application that youth must complete. Learning to ask for what we want is an important life skill. Being willing to put in effort to get what we want is also an important life skill.
It is through the generosity of donors that our youth have tapped into the grant to fund everything from ski equipment to music lessons to funds towards a camping trip at Disney World.
In making the case for a grant towards the trip to Disney, the youth said, "It will give me an experience that I have never had before...and to see different parts of the (United) States I have never seen."
Granting wishes and helping kids to learn and grow..these are the outcomes of your donations in action. Thank you.
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