National Volunteer Week #NVW2018
This April 15 to 21, 2018 is recognized as National Volunteer Week (NVW) across the country. It’s a time to celebrate and thank Canada’s 12.7 million volunteers for donating their time to the community. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel (BBBSP) is also taking this week to thank our 1,250 volunteers involved in mentoring, events, [...]
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The Second Big Brother Ever
Big Brothers Big Sisters is proud to be celebrating 50 years of mentoring in Peel Region! As a part of our 50th Anniversary year, a branch of our campaign revolves around video and reaching out to influential Mentors from our agency. We managed to get in contact with Ron Lehman, the second Big Brother ever at [...]
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Jane & Alissa – Power Of An Hour
Jane and Alissa are a wonderful match from the In-School mentoring program in the Peel District School Board. Jane became an In-school mentor 11 years ago because her sister recommended it. She was first matched with a girl named Olivia and is now with Alissa, who is in third grade. Alissa got an in-school mentor [...]
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Stan’s Story – Power of an Hour
Stan Cameron started mentoring with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel over 10 years ago. He mentored a young boy named Grant who was “incredibly creative” and the two enjoyed building anything and everything together. Puzzles, towers, blocks, lego, you name it. Stan mentored Grant for over 4 years where they built not only towers, [...]
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My Mentor, My Hero, My Brother.
When Matthew Murchie was just 7 years old his father suddenly passed away. Matthew was dealing with missing his father and not having a male role model in his life so his mom Olena applied for a Big Brother for her son. Matthew was fairly shy and not too sure about what having a Big [...]
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