Helping to build strong communitiesWelcomeThe St. Lawrence Youth Association is a nonprofit charitable organization, funded by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. Established 1974 in Kingston, Ontario. SLYA operates two residential programs (Achievement St. Lawrence and Sundance) including medical services, Girl's Moving On and Reintegration Worker Programs; two communitybased programs (Community Support Services and Intensive Support & Supervision Program), and a Bailiff Program.The Association deals with young persons in conflict with the law and young persons who are charged with an offence under the Criminal Code of Canada who are between the ages of twelve and seventeen when they commit the offence.SLYA is operated by a volunteer Board of Directors with an Executive Director to run the day to day operations of the Association as the senior executive officer. SLYA is incorporated under the Corporations Act, there is a constitution and bylaws, as well as officers of the Board of Directors.The Board of Directors includes a committee structure.
Debra Lefebvre, a Canadian Registered Nurse and mother of four young children, travelled to Uganda in 2004. Debra witnessed the senseless loss of life and poverty caused by malaria, a disease spread through the bite of an infected female anopheles mosquito. Debra decided to take action. That year, Debra launched Buy-a-Net Malaria Prevention Group. Buy-a-Net's first net distribution occurred in the spring of 2006, in the village of Katoogo in Uganda.
We honestly just started out trying to do something we enjoyed doing. We thought we could maybe make some things that we liked and see if other people would like them too. Our name, Free, came from a simple place; we like being clever, we wanted a name that people wouldn't forget, but we also wanted it to mean something, a chance for more.
Dragon Boat Club (formerly the Belleville Paddling Club) is one of Belleville's most active sports and recreation clubs. The BDBC is dedicated to fun, fitness and team-building, both on the water and off, offering programs for all ages from 14 years old to seniors. We offer instruction and training in all areas of Dragon Boating for all levels of expertise: from novice to competitive status. Since it's inception, the Belleville Dragon Boat Club has been proud to be a community based and completely volunteer run, non-profit organization. We strive to be good citizens of Belleville and the Quinte region. To that end we run several annual events to help raise money for our community. In addition to supporting the Belleville community we have strong ties to several of our neighbouring dragon boating teams and events. We have worked with the Wellington Lions Club and the Cobourg Dragon Boat Club with their dragon boat festivals. BDBC practices and events commence from Victoria Park on the Bay of Quinte, in the City of Belleville Ontario