How a B.C. high school student is ensuring every child has sports gear
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Vancouver high school student Cameron Lee and his father Matthew are loading up the car with hockey gear – everything from skates, helmets, shoulder pads and pants – preparing to head to the Yukon to deliver it to a minor hockey league.
Vancouver high school student Cameron Lee and his father Matthew are loading up the car with hockey gear – everything from skates, helmets, shoulder pads and pants – preparing to head to the Yukon to deliver it to a minor hockey league.
It’s all part of his initiative – Sports for Support – aimed at enhancing access to community sports for youth.
Lee started the organization while working a part-time job at a local hockey store. He says the “vast amount of second-hand and used equipment customers would ask to dispose (of).”
“A lot of this gear was being thrown in the garbage, for me that was a missed opportunity to provide it to a community in need,” explains Lee.
It started in 2022, slowly gaining more traction with donations from local community organizations like Mom2Mom, Aunt Leah’s, and now the Vancouver Canucks.
He’s collaborating with the hockey team, receiving a sponsorship from AirNorth to fly up to the Yukon and deliver the gear.
“I am going to meet with some of the executives with Whitehorse Minor Hockey and all this gear will be distributed among all the youth in the Yukon, Whitehorse especially, remote communities as well as Indigenous communities,” says Lee.
