
Youth Committee
Supporting youth in our communities
The Rotary Club of Vancouver identifies youth as our future leaders. We aim to provide leadership and personal development opportunities to youth through Rotary supported programs, provide financial support to historically underserved youth to further their education and betterment, promote youth literacy, and support youth programs with annual fundraising
Rotary’s youth programs are focused on kids, teenagers and young adults.

Gladstone
Stay in School Scholarships
RCoV works with school counselors and educators at Gladstone Secondary School to identify grade 10 and 11 students who are unlikely to pursue further education due to financial constraint. We provide two $10,000 awards annually to encourage students to continue to pursue post-secondary education along with smaller bursaries. To date the Rotary Club of Vancouver has funded over $300,000 to this program from the RCoV Foundation.

Youth Literacy
Dictionaries for Youth
In collaboration with the Dictionary Project, we donate dictionaries for youth at John Norquay Elementary School and Britannia Secondary School. Many of the recipients of these dictionaries are youth who don’t have access to the internet at home and some may have learned English as a second language. Reading is the only way out of poverty and a dictionary is a companion that helps people understand what they are reading; they are a reliable resource for a student learning the English language.

Youth Literacy
iPads for Youth
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we found that many students were left disconnected from their classrooms with no access to technology at home. We quickly mobilized and were able to provide several of the students at John Norquay Elementary School with iPads so they could continue receiving their education during the stay at home orders.

Girls Who Leap & Boys Who Dare
Hoop-a-Thon
We support the Rotary Club of Vancouver-Sunrise in their efforts to host the annual Hoop-a-thon in support of the Girls Who Leap and Boys Who Dare programs.
These programs support youth in the Downtown Eastside and Grandview Woodlands communities and provide structured mentorship and leadership opportunities through the lens of sport. The basketball-based programs help to set these students up for success by nurturing life skills, building meaningful connections and purposefully impacting our community. The students coming out of these programs go on to achieve great things both in sport and their careers that are made possible by these programs.