Calgary Home Builders Foundation has committed $60,000 to Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary’s Avenue 15 Youth Shelter, which provides a safe place for youth in crisis, providing not only an emergency place to sleep, shower and obtain a hot meal, but to help the troubled youth address problems, face obstacles and barriers, and  reconnect with support.  It also helps them find opportunities to embrace education and skills development to gain employment and transition back home or to live independently in the community. The donation will include removal of the front porch and upper balcony area to make way for a wheelchair ramp as well as replacement of fencing with a ‘living’ alternative and yard landscaping.  Completion date for this 14th Project by CHBF is spring 2012 and will include opportunities for members to participate. 

This initiative is the second major project for CHBF this year. Ann Donald, president of CHBF, recently announced a $1 million donation to Easter Seals Camp Horizon, the camping facility in the Kananaskis that allows people of all ages with disabilities and special needs to experience the outdoors in a safe and exciting environment.

The donation will help build two dormitories at the facility to house both campers with their special needs’ equipment, such as wheelchairs, and allow caregivers to be closer to the campers.
The dormitories are part of an aggressive $12 million plan to replace aged and outdated facilities at the camp over the next five years.