Meet Youth en Route’s first employee! Thanks to Canada Summer Jobs, Youth en Route has been able to hire a communications assistant. Meet Valeriya Mynak! Val is a third-year student at the University of Calgary, doing a double major in communications and international relations. You’ll see Val around the city, often in her Youth en…
Youth en Route collects donated and salvaged bikes, fixes them up and gets them into schools and places where they’ll be ridden. But if the structural integrity of the frame is compromised, through rust, cracking or dents, the bike frame lands in metal recycling. Until now. We wanted to find a use for these old…
We’re on the hunt for an awesome student or recent graduate to join our team for the summer. You’ll help us tell our stories. A WordPress guru, you’ll also have the eye to take great photos, edit some videos and create engaging social media posts. Boost your professional portfolio, learn from experienced staff and directors…
It’s that time of year. Calgarians are eager to clean their garages, basements and reduce clutter. In the past two weeks, Youth en Route has received countless offers of bike donations. We thought we’d share a few details about our challenges when it comes to bike donations Now, don’t get us wrong. we LOVE getting…
When you’re in high school, February means a new beginning with new subjects, classmates and teachers. For Phys-Ed 20 & 30 students at one of our Climate Improvement Fund project schools, the new semester started with a survey to help the teacher understand what her students hoped to get out of their upcoming Bike Unit….
By Tim Schaefer Imagine you’re an elementary or middle school kid, it’s the end of the school day, you go out to the bike rack and discover your bike has been stolen. What a traumatic experience! Sadly, this is exactly what happened in late fall 2021, at the Riverside school located in the community of…
