ANNUAL REPORT 23-24
Last year was full of exciting opportunities, starting with a capital campaign to build our first ever very own home. We’re getting closer to where we want to be: to the communities we serve, to the people who need us and to being in our new home.
Over the past year, we have continued to help so many families—well over 90,000 people, a full 10% more than the year before.
Join us as we walk you through how our multi-pronged mission translated into action in 2023-2024.
FOOD COMES FIRST
Being able to help more people is great news, but the flip side of this is that demand for our crucial services has never been greater.
This situation forced us to take a serious look at our operations, and we learned a great deal.
Thanks to funding from the City of Montreal, we were able to survey our clientele on their preferred foods and adapt the choices we offer.
Knowing we had to make changes to the food we offered, we took things further and decided to forego pre-made baskets and to allow our clients to make their own food selections.
TESTIMONIAL
Because of you, we were able to give 53 students beautiful backpacks filled with school supplies. What a delight to see their eyes light up when they receive this gift. Belonging is so important to a kid’s self esteem, and having backpacks just like the other children really changes their whole attitude towards school. This in turn increases their chances of academic success.
– FRANCINE GOYETTE,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, L’ÉCOLE DE LA MOSAÏQUE
MORE THAN SPORTS
Sports at Sun Youth are much more than fun and exercise: education and alleviating poverty drive every program. Statistics show the alarming rates at which boys are dropping out of school or taking longer than normal to graduate from high school, and that is where sports and our other recreational activities make a concrete difference.
2,000 VOLUNTEERS MAKE THINGS HAPPEN
Without its volunteers, Sun Youth would not be able to deliver any of its major programs or special activities to benefit the community. In 2023-2024, more than 2,100 volunteers provided a total of 32,400 hours to the organization. This volunteer time has a value of more than half a million dollars. But to Sun Youth and the beneficiaries of its many services, it’s worth far more than that.
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