For the price of a cup of coffee, you can enjoy a delicious lunch and support the West Broadway Youth Outreach!

Hello Robson Hall!
On Tuesday, January 25th you can leave your lunch at home and for a minimum donation of $3 enjoy a delicious lunch! Robson Hall students and Faculty members are putting on a fantastic lunch to raise money for the West Broadway Youth Outreach. Bring some spare change, enjoy some fantastic food and help the community in the process! Your colleagues are donating a huge variety of tasty dishes to help make this lunch a success. You’ll find samosas,curry, foccacia bread, pasta, perogies, delectable desserts and much much more! You don’t want to miss it!

The Law Society of Manitoba has partnered with WBYO for this year’s LSM community event. The FLF will be participating in the “Lawyers for Literacy” event by volunteering on January 29th to read with or to children from the WBYO. Along with promoting literacy, the FLF is raising money to support all the good work the WBYO does. All money raised at the potluck will go directly to the WBYO. So let’s come together  with that famous Robson Hall community spirit and raise a record setting amount for this awesome organization! You’ll find the fantastic spread waiting for you in the main hallway at noon on the 25th.

More about the WBYO:
The West Broadway Youth Outreach is a recreational life skills program for children who live in the area bounded by Arlington Street, Portage Avenue, Osborne Street and the Assiniboine River, for children ages 4 – 12, with junior volunteers, mentors and role models ages 13-17 from the area. All activities are free. They provide 28 structured programs after-school and evenings year round. They have a homework club where kids are encouraged to engage in their studies and are offered incentives to do so. They have a Dreams Program through which kids are encouraged to think beyond the day-to-day and realize that they can have dreams that can be fulfilled.

The Goals of the program are to:

Ensure that local children have the opportunity to have their basic social emotional and recreational needs met
Instill a sense of accountability in local children
Provide positive adult role models
Develop local leadership

West Broadway Youth Outreach also welcomes donations of books, children’s clothes, juice boxes for after school snacks, games, toys, musical instruments…pretty much anything you can think of that would be of interest to a child. We will be accepting gently used books, toys, games etc. as “payment” for the lunch as well.
 
If you’d like to learn more about the Law Society of Manitoba’s 2011 community event in partnership with the West Broadway Youth Outreach, check this out.

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Help the FLF raise money to support the West Broadway Youth Outreach and promote literacy!

The FLF is participating in a very exciting Law Society of Manitoba program called “Lawyers for Literacy” and we need your help!

On January 29th, members of the FLF will be spending time at Crossways in Common reading with and reading to children from the West Broadway area. This fantastic community event will allow lawyers (and law students) to share their skills with children by helping them read and encouraging them to read, while promoting literacy through demonstrating how important reading is and all the places it can take you. Along with these important goals, the event will support the West Broadway Youth Outreach, an organization that provides services to approximately 600 children from the area. The WBYO operates on a shoestring budget. With additional money, they will be able to expand the services they offer. For example, the WBYO takes kids swimming every week, but not all of the kids can participate because they can’t afford bathing suits and towels.

Individuals participating in “Lawyers for Literacy” are asking for pledges in support of their participation. We at the FLF recognize that it is hard for law students to pledge money, but know that our members are with us in our belief that at its most basic level, equality means ensuring that all children have access to the supports, services and resources that enable them to learn and grow so that they too can grow up to be whatever they dream to be.

So how can you help???

The FLF is going to hold a lunch at Robson Hall on January 25 . This delicious event will be open for all to attend on a donation basis (minimum $3). The donations will go towards supporting the FLF members participating in Lawyers for Literacy in lieu of pledges. While we would love if all of  you could attend and donate, we also need as many of you as possible to donate a dish to serve.Essentially, this is going to be a big potluck lunch and who doesn’t love potlucks? Please let us know by Tuesday, January 18th if you can donate a dish. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy – just something that can be served to a crowd. Our participation in the Lawyers for Literacy event depends on your support!

Note – if you are interested in donating a dish to the potluck and want to bring a dessert, please include that information when you e-mail us. We will probably cap the number of dessert dishes at 2 or 3. Also, while we would love to thank those who donate dishes with a free lunch, doing so would probably result in having no dishes left to serve to the larger law school community. We appreciate your understanding in our asking everyone to contribute $3 minimum to enjoy the lunch.

West Broadway Youth Outreach also welcomes donations of new or gently used books, children’s clothes, juice boxes for after school snacks, games, toys, musical instruments, or anything else that would be of interest to a child. These will be accepted at the lunch in lieu of the $3 minimum donation.

We look forward to hearing from you!!

Find out more about Lawyers for Literacy

Thanks for your support!

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