Natalia, a friend of FoodCycles and her sister Marcela are looking for volunteers to help develop a Community Garden Program at a homeless youth shelter in Scarborough (5 minutes from Kennedy subway station). Contact Marcela if you’re interested and read the details below.
THE DETAILS
November 5, 2009
Second Base Youth Shelter’s (SBYS) Community Garden Program is seeking qualified and impassioned volunteers to fill administrative and program development positions here at SBYS, as soon as possible. We offer volunteers the opportunity to be a part of a growing community garden capacity building program that focuses on meaningful life skills and employment training for the youth SBYS serves.
SBYS is looking for a team of volunteers with previous experience that will enable the furthering of program capacity building!
A list of specific projects that we would like volunteer positions to approach is detailed below:
• the development of an in-kind donations list
• program evaluation of our various community garden projects (ie. tracking data):
SBYS composting project
SBYS vegetable and herb garden project
SBYS cooking and harvesting project
SBYS food preservation project
SBYS in-door sprout growing project
• conducting youth focus groups
• conducting and/or facilitating drop-in food security/urban agriculture workshops
• grant writing
For all inquiries, please communicate with:
Marcela Crowe
Pre-Apprenticeship & Youth Employment Associate
Second Base Youth Shelter
Email: mcrowe at secondbaseyouthshelter.org (replace at with @)
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