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    Donation helps youth drop-in stay open

    CBC – Wed, 15 Feb, 2012

    A youth drop-in centre operated by the Boys and Girls Club of Charlottetown will be able to stay open thanks to a donation from a local Rotary Club.

    The Survival Centre, a free drop-in program open to young people ages16 to 29, will receive $100,000 over the next four years from the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty.

    The program is designed to help young people who are on their own and who may find themselves financially strapped, transient, homeless or in need of other support. It's run by a trained youth worker and operates five nights a week from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

    Boys and Girls Club officials said the money to run the centre had nearly run out and the donation will ensure the doors stay open.

    The money will help fill a need in the community, said Lewis Creed, president of the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty.

    "We spoke to people like school guidance counsellors and, you know, there are issues with couch-surfing kids, there are issues with homeless youth, and I guess the closest we found to anything that is addressing that currently was the Survival Centre," said Creed.

    "And we have partnered with the Boys and Girls Club in projects in the past. They are a terrific organization in the community."

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