REGINA – City Kidz got the chance to challenge a grey cup champion.
MLA’s Gene Makowsky and Warren Steinley were joined by former Rough Rider Mike McCullough for a celebrity free-for-all dodgeball tournament.
“I lost an older brother and lost my son seven years ago. So I know about heartache and turmoil and a lot of these young kids have to go through things they shouldn’t have to go through,” McCullough said.
City Kidz Regina is a non-profit organization that helps inner city kids to break the cycle of hopelessness and poverty.
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North Central Regina has one of the largest youth crime rates in the nation and many kids are living in homes that are 3rd or 4th generation poverty.
A cycle that City Kidz Branch Manager, Donna West said needs to end.
“A lot of these kids don’t have hope.”
“All of them are living in North Central Regina so many of them are just from relationships of low poverty. There is a lot of addictions happening and many things like that”, West explained.
“They’ve lost their hope already.”
The intention is to give children hope by helping them set and achieve goals.
On Saturdays, 85 children attend the free program which includes free transportation, a healthy meal and impactful life lessons with fun activities.
But during the week, closer to 140 children are part of the program through home visits.
The same volunteer will visit the child, parents and siblings to talk about hope and progress multiple times a week.
The program costs roughly $100,000 a year to run, and this weekend’s dodgeball tournament raised almost $3,500.
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