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Outpouring of Support for Mother’s Day Campaign

Mother’s Day is an important time at Youville Centre, and this May we continued our tradition with our Mother’s Day Campaign. The campaign is an annual initiative for support from the community, and it focuses on honouring mothers, both here at Youville Centre and in the community.

When donations were given, generous supporters also told us their mother’s name, as the premise of the campaign is to “honour your mother by helping the young mothers of Youville Centre”. As mothers’ names were shared with us, we wrote them on paper tulips that decorated our centre. Slowly each day as donations came in, this ‘paper garden’ grew, and our young moms saw a visual representation of our caring community.

Last year was our first year running this campaign and we were able to raise $3,500! This year we were astonished at the outpouring of support from the community as the campaign raised $7,000!


Our utmost gratitude goes out to each and every one of our donors who supported this campaign! Your donation will go directly to support the innovative programs and services we run at Youville Centre each day.

Thank you for honouring your mother — in doing so, you have directly impacted the lives of Youville Centre’s young mothers and their children.

Youville Moms Ready for School Thanks to MBNA

For two years now, MBNA‘s Women In Leadership (WIL) Grouphas been supporting Youville Centre’s young mothers and their children in various ways. From diaper drives to food and clothing drives, financial support, event participation and guest speaking presentations, this amazing group has been with us along the way. With another academic year upon us, we were very happy to learn that the women of MBNA had decided to purchase school bags and school supplies for all 48 of our current students, and a few extra for new students that may join us in the coming months.

As you can see in the photos below, our young moms were very happy to receive their bags! Inside each bag was a healthy supply of paper, pens, a calculator, folders, and other essential tools that will help them stay on track and work towards their Ontario Secondary School credits.

Many thanks goes to MBNA’s Women in Leadership (WIL) Groupfor this wonderful gift! It is truly inspiring to have women in our community who choose to support the young women of Youville Centre as they reach toward their dreams.

Mother’s Day at Youville Centre ~ Thank you to our Generous Donor Community!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our First Annual Mother’s Day Campaign this May!

The concept of the campaign was to provide an opportunity for you to honour your own mother and all that she gave to you, by giving to our young mothers and their children at Youville Centre. We were so delighted when we started seeing the response from our generous donor community, and we displayed their generosity on the wall of our entrance with the name of each honoured mother written on a paper tulip for all to see.

As the tulips went up on the walls, our students became curious, “What are those flowers for?”, they would ask. We explained to them that the flowers represented moms in our Ottawa and area community who care about them, our students and young mothers. In the end we had a wall full of tulips, reminding our young mothers each day, as they walked up the stairs to class, that there was a garden of moms behind them, providing a chance for them to grow and to provide a brighter future for their children.

Thanks to our amazing donors, we were able to raise $3,000 in this inaugural campaign, of which all proceeds will go towards supporting our daily programs and operations at Youville Centre. It was so encouraging to see this “Mom to Mom” support, and we plan to continue this campaign each year.

To celebrate Mother’s Day even further, the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa-Vanier offered each Mom a rose as a special Mother’s Day treat (pictured above), and we provided a special lunch for our students to enjoy. Mother’s Day is a pretty big deal here at Youville Centre, as we all take this time to celebrate the love and devotion our students have for their children, and now it is also a time to honour our donors’ mothers, who surely instilled the gifts of empathy, generosity and a charitable spirit in their children.