Building up our Youth into the Adults of Tomorrow

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Lets start this off with a little background of myself and where these goals came from. My name is Aaron I grew up in the Inner city Housing Project Regent Park. As a small child we had a passion for basketball. I first started playing basketball on a milk crate nailed to a tree outside my house. We were really starting from the building blocks of basketball. When we weren't playing basketball we looked to what was around us as role models. Starting off I understand the first hand effects of not having REAL MODELS to look up to. Alongside the lack of options and opportunities that have a negative impact on youths in inner city neighborhoods.

Growing up I made some poor choices. And had to face consequences to these bad choices. I served 10 years in Provincial facilities, Canadian Penitentiary. In my time away from the world I lost many close friends and loved ones from gun violence within the Inner City . I’m fully aware of the effects it has on the families and in our Communities.

My story is an example of the lack of REAL Role Models and insufficient community resources has on the inner city youth in the GTA.

“I want to inspire our youth. I want someone to look at me and say because of you I didn't give up.”

I made mistakes in my life but they do not define who and what I will be in the future. I choose to use my mistakes as a learning opportunity to make a positive change. I am going to be an inspiration for someone else with similar struggles.

Realizing from the start this would be a lot of work for one person I decided to partner with fellow Regent Park advocates the Turk Foundation. We are organizing this GoFundMe campaign to bring the Community closer together from a common love of Basketball, evolving and becoming a support system to the youth in the Regent Park Community. “My motto is inspire one youth save one youth.”

I am raising money for my mentor Duane Spencer who’s been actively working hard and having an impact in the Regent Park Community for over 20 years now.

Spencer was my childhood Basketball coach and like a big brother to me. He’s the most genuine kind hearten person that I know.

Spencer is not only an active Role Model for the youth in the Regent Park Community. He is a multifaceted member within the Community assisting in coaching mentoring, after school programs, tutoring and youth development.

I also want to recognize my other childhood mentors that had and still have a impact in the Regent Park Community.

David Latimer,
Donnie Williams
Kenneth Slater

It’s men like them that taught me at a early age the importance of giving back to one’s community. They inspire me to get involved and make a difference. It is the principals and morals I learned from them is what makes me create this today.

The goal is to raise $8,500 to buy a Shoot-A-Way 10K Gun basketball shooting machine
for the Regent Park Community Centre.

We believe this equitment in the centre will benefit the youth as well as the community. Bringing kids together that normally may not interact and also for the youth that like to be alone then can adapt and practice.

We are starting with the Regent Park area where we were born and raised but that’s not where we want to stop. We intend on getting these Machines placed everywhere throughout the city.

There’s been a rivalry between Regent Park and Alexandra Park that goes back a very longtime. We want to end this and start a relationship off on a different foot. After we complete this project our goal is to raise funds to get the same system in Alexandra Park. We’re not just trying to lookout for our own neighborhood it’s about the whole entire city.

Help spark a movement in the neighborhoods of Toronto, by bringing technology basketball into the Community Centres.

This machine is a GAME CHANGER! I know this machine will have a tremendous impact on the youth in the community and keep them in the gym instead of the streets.

The level of the game of basketball itself would raise just from the skill that this machine can help these youth master and improve on their ranges, strong spots, and work on their weak spots.

“If we don’t save these youth from going through shit we went through and are still going through, then we’re to blame where they end up.”

The $8,500 that will be raised will be spent on the Shoot-A-Way 10K Gun basketball shooting machine $6400 (USD) $(8,300 CAD) and a truck rental, gas to go pick it up because they don’t deliver to Ontario.

Waiting on the politicians for funding for our community ain’t happening.
We as a community have to step up in 2020 and we have to get more involved and we have to get more engaged.

We have to be the first one to extend our hand and help for the youth. These kids just need help and support not after criminal activity has taken place but before.

They can spend every dollar in the world on corrections and more jails and more police. But until they start building the communities with them same budgets. The Gun violence in our neighborhoods wont ever stop.

Your financial support will help us be successful in giving our boys and girls better opportunities to stay active in the gym and working on their craft.

At the same time, it is also an opportunity for you to extend your appreciation to the efforts being done to promote our young men and women to a brighter future through hard work & sport.

Thank you very much in advance for your support and consideration.
Turk Foundation
Peoples Basketball

For any information you can email us
Coach Spence
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