A cocktail-dinner to benefit struggling young people

On Thursday, Dec. 7, the Estrie Youth Center Foundation is inviting the public to its 6th Christmas Fundraiser, a cocktail dinner at the Sherbrooke Museum of Fine Arts .The event will take place under the patronage of Sherbrooke Innopole Executive Director Josée Fortin and aims to allow more children to benefit from the Foundation’s help in 2018.

The evening costs $100 per person and tickets can be purchased on the Foundation's website at www.fondationcje.com/coquetel-2017-achats-de-billets.

A foundation for the well-being of children

In the course of 2016, the Estrie Youth Center Foundation helped 6,055 young people under 17-years-old, who have often been victims of neglect and/or physical and psychological abuse. Thanks to donations received during the year, the Foundation helped children to find balance in their lives life. It finances summer programs, sports, cultural activities, and offers financial assistance to enable young people to pursue post-secondary studies, or provides them with a starter kit for setting up a first apartment. The Foundation also helps new mothers who have few resources.

"The Youth Center Foundation helped me enormously in starting a new life with my two daughters,” says Claudine, a mother who has benefitted from the Foundation’s help. ”Thanks to the Foundation, I was able to buy a washing machine and all the furniture needed to have decent rooms." In 2016, the Foundation allocated $72,201 to186 young people.