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Happy 10th Anniversary
🎂🎉 Happy 10th Anniversary
YLSBC 2026 Registrations Open
2026 Member Registration Age 12+ years old
Video of Our Hold Youth Speech Competition
Community Service 2020-2025
YLSBC Annual Reports
Our Gratitude
Please enjoy the following videos: the first one is of our members, parents and youth who prepared gratitude poems and poster to uplift the morale and show their support to front line health care workers and the second is a feedback video from the recipients of our food donation.
See the letter of appreciation from the District Principal, Siwal Si’wes Indigenous Education, SD75
Please have a look at the appreciation letters at the bottom of this page!
Who We Are
The Youth Leadership Society of British Columbia (YLSBC) promotes education and the development of youth leadership skills through experiential learning. Our youth-driven programs are designed to foster good citizenship and build their life skills. It is our endeavor that the youth are laying a good foundation for Canada.
Our seeds were planted in 1997 when Ravi joined Boy Scouts of America as a parent volunteer and then as a leader. Subsequently, he joined Scouts Canada as a leader, remained committed to youth development, and finally founded Steps Together Foundation (STF) in 2011. STF is a family foundation which ran youth programs formally under an organizational umbrella. The programs proved to be popular with many families in the lower mainland, and there arose a need for a community service organization. Finally, YLSBC was founded on October 30, 2014 and officially launched it on September 13, 2015.
The youth programs originally run under Steps Together Foundation were transitioned to YLSBC, except the annual Youth Public Speaking Contest and Bursaries program which STF still sponsors.
Currently, both organizations work in tandem, utilizing their unique strengths and delivers service to the community. We are pleased to share our journey of the past five years on the following pages. Our youth, parents, friends, and families believed in our vision and participated wholeheartedly, thus building this organization today. We all, a big family, collectively share its success by laying its foundation one brick at a time.
Here is our story…
Appreciation Letters
Our Founder, Ravi Safaya, was recently awarded the Leaders of Distinction Award at the Annual AGM of CSLA held at Halliburton, Ontario.
We are appreciative of and thankful to CSLA for presenting this award to Ravi, recognizing his contribution to student leadership in Canada.
Please enjoy some other appreciation letters and certificates from Healthcare Organizations and Senior Homes.
