Promote volunteerism and to create new opportunities for youth.Youth Volunteer Markham

Youth Volunteer Markham was founded to promote volunteerism and connect youth with volunteer opportunities in the community. This ultimately encourages youth to get involved with their community and build up skills along the way. We currently provide up-to-date listings of volunteer opportunities, a scholarship and awards calendar, an opportunities calendar (conferences and enrichment programs) and have recently expanded and branched out to address another youth concern: job opportunities. Our project idea is to engage and encourage the Youth of Markham and York Region to volunteer through community events. We want to host large scale volunteer, job and university fairs for student in Markham and York Region. Through these events we hope to reach out to over 2000 high school and elementary students.