About VANOC’s $5-million to Vancouver youth shelter
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VANOC yesterday, amidst great fanfare, announced that they were spending .001% of their projected ticket revenue on an emergency shelter for youth at Covenant House. This $250,000 is presumably to help Covenant House deal with an expected influx of young people to Vancouver during the Games who will have nowhere to stay.
On giving $2 for every $100,000 in sponsorship money received by VANOC (.0002%) to help homeless youth, VANOC Vice President for Celebrations and Partnerships (seriously) David Guscott told the Tyee that VANOC was doing its best for the youth: “We know from other Olympics that there is a concentration of shelter bed requirements, and we made a commitment to do our best to make sure we can meet that demand. Now we are doing it, with our partners.”
On VANOC spending .008% of the torch run budget on homeless youth, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said that he didn’t need the UN to tell him there was a homeless problem in the province, “I think all of us understand that there is work to be done.”
Can’t wait to see how the remaining $250,000 or .0018% of the venue budget is going to be spent to help the homeless around Games time. Wow!
From http://davideby.blogspot.com/2008/04/half-of-vanoc-shelter-money-gets-spent.html
