our internAtionAL pArtnerS


International


Youth Exchange program with ACJ/YMCA Nicaragua


mAin AreAS of cooperAtion in 2010


YMCA/ACJ of ecuador (partner since 1982) ➢ Paired with the Downtown and Saint-Laurent Y centres ➢ Collaboration on the flagship program “Youth Participation and Citizenship”


YMCA/ACJ of guatemala (partner since 2008) ➢ Paired with the Guy-Favreau and West Island Y centres ➢ Training youth as volunteer leaders for community programs ➢ Focus on human rights, institutional strengthening, and political engagement


YMCA/ACJ of honduras (partner since 1993 with The YMCAs of Québec centres and since 2008


with the YMCA Associations of eastern Canada) ➢ Paired with the Du Parc and Pointe-Saint-Charles Y centres and 12 of the 13 YMCAs and YMCA-YWCAs of the Maritimes


➢ Support for the youth citizenship program


➢ Public education, citizen debates, radio show production, HIV/AIDS prevention


YMCA/ACJ of nicaragua (partner since 1993) ➢ Paired with the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and Westmount Y centres


➢ 5th Children from the YMCA daycare in Ecuador YMCA of Haiti rebuilt! the ymcA of haiti rises up!


Haiti is recovering from the earthquake that devastated the country on January 12, 2010, killing over 230,000 people while injuring another 300,000. Although a tremendous amount of reconstruction remains to be done, there has been much accomplished since.


No one in Port-au-Prince was spared by the earthquake. The YMCA’s Konbit youth centre was destroyed, but fortunately, none of the children and youth inside the building were seriously hurt. On January 15, the World Alliance of YMCAs launched a call to aid for the people of Haiti and its YMCA; a call that The YMCAs


of Québec responded to. As of December 31, 2010, close to half a million dollars had been raised by YMCAs around the world, $78,336 of which came from Canadian YMCAs. These funds were used to support the emergency interventions necessary to meet the pressing needs of the communities and to help with the reconstruction of the Konbit centre.


➢ Equal opportunity, an issue at the heart of the Y’s involvement in Nicaragua


➢ Project raising awareness on the issues of violence against women, funded by the Québec International Development Program


edition of the International Youth Exchange program for youth aged 16-18 years


YMCA of Mexico (partner since 2004) ➢ Paired with the Association Services of The YMCAs of Québec ➢ Staff and volunteer exchanges through programs such as Mano a Mano and Camp Y Kanawana


YMCA of haiti (partner since 2002) ➢ Paired with Camp Y Kanawana and the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Y centre


Despite the precarious situation of the YMCA in Haiti and its staff, the literacy program continued to welcome over a hundred adults in order to teach them how to read and write. Programs such as homework help and tennis lessons were able to continue. The YMCA, its staff, and volunteers took part in the distribution of food and the collection of clothes, and offered its fitness and recreation activities to children affected by the earthquake. As for the containers that helped transport


materials needed for the reconstruction of the Konbit centre in downtown Port-au-Prince, they will be transformed into a new activity centre in another neighbourhood.


➢ Long-standing issues: poverty, lack of education, and marginalization ➢ Programs: reading club, homework help, English classes,


fitness activities, dance lessons, group discussions, HIV/AIDS prevention, and leadership training


On August 29, approximately eight months after the disaster, the new YMCA centre was officially opened. It was the first public building destroyed by the earthquake to have been rebuilt in Haiti, and Haiti’s first green building able to resist earthquakes and tornados.


Today, activities at the YMCA of Haiti have resumed in full.


In 2009, the YMCA of Greater Montréal became The YMCAs of Québec to represent our objective to provide services to more people in more communities throughout Québec.


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