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Helping new immigrants establish Canadian roots : Evelyn and her family moved to York Region from Brazil in 2012. After travelling quite a bit over the years due to her husband’s job, she was looking forward to settling down in one community with him and their three children.
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Providing tools, resources and encouragement for those with learning disabilities : Ryan was born with dyslexia and had difficulty learning to read fluently. Despite these challenges, he worked through it during his school years and graduated high school. Ryan had a thirst to pursue post-secondary education.
Unfortunately, he had extre... -
Camp tackles youth unemployment through science and technology: United Way York Region and IBM Canada have a common goal of helping kids be all they can be. We know that no one entity or sector can solve the critical issues facing youth in our region. “We are not going to social service, charity, program or fundraise o... -
United Way York Region puts on 120,273 happy faces!: On Saturday, August 16th at the 11th Annual Toromont CAT Dragon Boat Festival, United Way York Region announced that over the last year it has provided 120,273 people the help they need to move from crisis to a better life.
“Last year, our call to actio...
