George and Kenny Planning the skateboard project togher
The RamblingRat benefiting StreetKids International Expedition has joined partnership with Future Cents (www.futurecents.ca ) in Prince George to create a skateboard project to benefit local youth.
Future Cents a community program that empowers young people with multi-barriers to make good employment and education decisions, and to have the ability to make healthy life choices.
George Logan Davis, Youth representative of Future Cents, and Kenny Thomas, of the RamblingRat expedition, joined together to create the project.
George and the Future Cents youth had already built an indoor half pipe ramp which they were planning to make available to the local community. Kenny of the RamblingRat Expedition had set up a similar Project in his home town of “Smithers” where he was able to get a skateboard shop to provide a deck and safety equipment for use in their indoor half pipe. This project was exclusively for kids that could not afford their own board and equipment. Kenny was keen to replicate this concept in Prince George.
George and Kenny came up with a proposal which they made to Ruins skate board shop in Prince George ( www.ruins.ca ) to ask if they could help sponsor this project. Ruins gratefully sponsored two boards.
This is what Kenny and George have to say:
“The partnership between Future Cents and RamblingRat puts out a positive message to the local community that we care about street youth across the globe.”
The project has been a great success and the youth at Future Cents have worked really hard to make everything work in a very short space of time. We created a lot of postive media attention with the partnership . Catch the links below for the media snaps.
We would like to thank Franka Petrucci, manger at Future Cents, and Tammy Marlulau, Active manager
Rikki gelowitz, program coordinator, and I worked with Jan Kupp, youth supervisor.
You can contact Future Cents at www.futurecents.ca and email them at francafe@shaw.ca
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