Serve! Engaging Youth for Change

ALUMNUS PROFILE

Louisa Kratka Hamilton 2000-2001

Louisa Kratka

Since completing Serve Canada in 2001, I have worked as a Special Needs worker, taught Children’s art classes at the Burlington Art Centre and have avidly begun following my goals. I have travelled, worked on organic farms, lived by the ocean, performed in the Halifax Fringe Festival this year, begun to book-bind and to play music again.

Serve Canada helped strengthen my connections to my community. I’ve continued to do this and to learn and explore the important link between a healthy home, environment and community and one’s physical, mental and emotional health. Over these years, I have tried to constructively campaign against the building of the Red Hill Creek Expressway, and to live lightly and joyfully on this planet.

When I started at Serve Canada, I was 21 years old, had never had a full-time job for longer than two months and was a year and a half clean from a crippling heroin addiction which I allowed to rob me of the opportunities every youth has when they are in high school. In the program, my personality came out for the first time. I discovered my natural leadership abilities but I also learned about the difference one person can make.
Sarah, 2003 Experience This! Graduate
An elegant evening of fine wine tasting led by renown wine expert, Tony Aspler.

The event will also feature a silent and live auction of fine and rare wines.

So come eat, drink, be merry and experience the wines of Italy. Ciao!