International Projects

YMCA-YWCA of Winnipeg

• Helping Marginalized and Vulnerable Youth

  Fund: Development Fund | Country: Mexico | Amount: $10,058 | Funded in 2010/2011

  This project, at the YMCA of Baja California, is Helping Marginalized and Vulnerable Youth by providing a refuge to young people and children who have been detained or deported from the United States. This program protects youth from the dangerous streets of Tijuana and participation in drugs, prostitution and violent crime.

• Helping Marginalized & Vulnerable Populations

  Fund: Development Fund | Country: Mexico | Amount: $7,179 | Funded in 2008/2009

  This project seeks to reduce the number of migrant youth who, after being detained or deported from the United States, are thrown back into the dangerous streets of Tijuana and exposed to drugs and prostitution.