Regina’s North Central Family Centre (NCFC) is a non-profit charitable organization that delivers over 45 structured programs to Regina’s inner city children, youth, families and seniors. Their programs and services are designed to promote positive and healthy changes in the Regina community and, through the generosity of local REALTORS®, the NCFC now has more funding for a variety of these endeavors.
In 2005, a three-year partnership between the Association of Regina REALTORS® and the NCFC’s Youth Empowerment Program began. This past July, the ARR presented the Youth Empowerment Program with $4,000 – a portion of which came from the ARR’s 2008 golf tournament. Over the past three-years, the association has provided the NCFC with over $10,000 in assistance.
“Regina’s REALTORS® are very pleased to continue this partnership with the NCFC.
It’s a grass root organization that is on the ground everyday helping the youth of north central Regina”, said Shawn Fay, 2008 President of the Association of Regina REALTORS® Inc. “This year’s assistance will provide north central teenagers with work experience opportunities that otherwise may not be there.”
The Youth Empowerment Program employs 15 to 20 inner city youth to provide services to Regina’s north-central neighbourhood. These services include lawn-care, snow removal, doing year-round odd jobs for residents and operating an arts and crafts gallery. The funding that the NCFC received will be used to provide maintenance for program equipment, to acquire materials to make jewelry for the program’s arts and crafts gallery, and to bring in a drum corps team to teach area youth aboriginal drumming.
Pictured: Shawn Fay (on right) – President of the Association of Regina REALTORS® presenting Sandy Wankel – Executive Director of the North Central Family Centre – with a cheque for the Youth Empowerment Program.
