My first experience with the YMCA was as a financially assisted member. Recently having graduated from University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and Movement Studies, I was working as a struggling performance artist.
Juliet’s first memory of the YMCA is from when she was growing up in Guyana, South America. She would look forward to attending an after-school program. Juliet recalls fond memories of weaving to make baskets and learning life skills like sewing, cooking, and baking. “We couldn’t wait to go home and tell our parents what we’d learnt or made each day,” says Juliet.
The Y has been a large part of Nicolas’ life from an early age. Having moved to Canada from Buenos Aires; Argentina with his family in the summer of 2005. Nicolas was only 3 years old at the time.
My family and I emigrated from the United Kingdom to Canada in 1998. Starting a new chapter in our lives and settling down in a new county with a very young family was challenging, but it became so much easier after being introduced to the YMCA of Oakville.
