YMCA Healthy Kids Day at the Community YMCA
Did you know that only 7% of youth and 15% of adults in Canada meet daily physical activity requirements? That's why the YMCA hold Healthy Kids Day each year - a free family and community event [...]
Black to Business Magazine Features Amber Grosse
Featuring: Amber Grosse Program Coordinator, YMCA Community Action Network The Black Business Initiative's Black to Business Winter Magazine featured Amber Grosse in their "Celebrating 20 Years of Business is Jammin' (BIJ)" feature. Amber had previously [...]
New Beginnings start here.
The YMCA began assisting Sawsan Shamo in April of 2017 as she was seeking admission to Saint Mary’s University. She did not have all her academic transcripts, as she was unable to acquire them from [...]
“I love that I can relate to my clients. I can tell them my story.”
Kim Marsman has been with the YMCA of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth for 10 years. Read her Y Story. "My proudest moments include having the opportunity to work in a place that allows me to connect [...]
George “Marshmallow” Forsyth
To the children from the YMCA Child Care programs he was known simply as “Marshmallow.” A jokester at heart, George Forsyth was always excited to take part in the Grand Friends program at the Camp [...]