Youth en Route is excited to announce that we’ve been awarded two Canada Summer Jobs student positions, each for 12 weeks. One position is for a student communicator who can help tell our story in words and pictures to our communities using our web site and social media; in our annual report and more. The…
Marcel* was one of the last of his classmates to try the trike. Functionally blind, Marcel, an easy-going, but somber, student, was happy just sitting on the side of the gym watching his ESII classmates at St. Mary’s High School learn to cycle. Youth en Route was at St. Mary’s for a week in October to…
Youth en Route is really excited about our fourth September of back to school. We are looking for new schools and projects to take on for the school year. It’s going to be a stellar year. We’ve learned so much about how to break down the barriers youth face before they can choose active travel…
In July, Youth en Route applied for a “Return to Play grant from KidsSport Alberta that was funded through the Alberta government. Our goal was to provide bikes to special needs classes in High Schools across the city and give these students an opportunity to learn to ride. We’re now delivering our report to the…
Everyone can ride a bike. Youth en Route empowers students to gain the confidence and skills they need to use a bike as transportation, no matter their abilities. We’ve been working to deliver adaptive tricycles to six Calgary Board of Education High Schools. To date, we’ve delivered nine new trikes, three loaned ones, and two…
