SportWORKS - Making a Difference & Becoming Different

Ellen Kim

Placement: 
Commonwealth Games Association and National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka
Hometown: 
Vancouver
Education: 
Bachelor of Human Kinetics (Kinesiology and Health Science), University of British Columbia
I believe the integration of sport into communities needs to start at a grassroots level. This program allows youth, such as myself, the rare opportunity to go directly into an area of need and work to build sport system capacity and organizational capability within influential national sport bodies. Mobilizing youth is a great way to drive progress, and this is a great example of a program that will utilize young people in Canada to create change around the world.