A national program is helping make a difference in the lives of Canadian youth.
LiveDifferent is run remotely in local communities, schools and abroad. It’s reached over 1.8 million students across Canada including thousands of Indigenous youth.
Elissa Grohne, director of community engagement says its circle program is geared towards students from grades seven to 12 through school assemblies, while the build program is for youthstarting at 14 years old up to adults.
Through the program, youth have helped build more than 625 homes for families all over the world.
“We work in Mexico and Dominican and then we also do Thailand trips,” she said.
“We also work in Haiti too, so we’ve got a school there and something called Freedom Village, which is a safe haven for young girls who are escaping, human trafficking so we do a lot of work kind of all around the world.”
Grohne says …