About KIDSAFE
Since 1993, The KidSafe Project Society, a small non-profit in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, has been providing a nurturing, caring environment to children in need. Their vision is a city where all children and youth feel seen, heard and have a place to thrive.
KidSafe opens during winter, spring, and summer breaks, and after school. They operate in seven sites across Vancouver, providing children facing adversity with a safe space where they can play, eat, learn, spend time with friends, and just be kids, when school is not in session.
Kids who attend KidSafe have access to nutritious meals, unlimited snacks, and opportunities they might not otherwise have, such as taking part in a place-based field trip or learning a new skill (like golf!) under the supervision of a trauma-informed staff team.
Reaching over 800 children annually, KidSafe's programs are free of charge thanks to the generosity of individuals, businesses, governments and organizations that want to make a positive impact within their community.
Recognized as an essential service, KidSafe even remained operational during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
To help support the program, one wonderfully successful fundraising event, in addition to many others such as selling greeting cards featuring the artwork of KidSafe kids, is an annual golf tournament held for many years at University Golf Course. The tournament could not go ahead in 2020 because of Covid, but fundraising was done on a virtual basis in 2021 and was again a featured fundraiser for KidSafe at UGC in August 2022.