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OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, April 3, 2009 · 22 Youth activist Craig Kielburger speaks at Oakville Centre Monday Author and youth activist Craig Kielburger is speaking at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts on Monday, April 6. The event is from 7-8 p.m. followed by a book signing and reception with Kielburger. Tickets are $50 and are available at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts box office at 905-815-2021 or www.oakvillecentre.ca. All proceeds from the ticket sales of this evening will go directly to the Rotherglen Children's REACH Foundation. At the age of 12, Kielburger founded and chaired Free the Children, a unique international development and youth empowerment organization. Today, along with Free the Children, he is co-founder of Me to We, a social enterprise that provides consumers with socially responsible lifestyle choices. Kielburger is the author of Free The Children and the co-author of the national bestsellers Take Action! A Guide to Active Citizenship, Take More Action and, the New York Times Best Seller Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World. Kielburger has been awarded many national and international awards for his work, and one of the youngest recipients of the Order of Canada. His work has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, and in People, Time and The Economist magazines. The evening is also an opportunity to raise community awareness about the REACH (Rotherglen Educating for Advocacy and Creating Hope) Children's Foundation, a new endowment fund established with the Community Foundation of Oakville in 2008. "REACH represents the school's tangible commitment of giving back to our local community," says Eileen Lanigan, co-owner and co-director of Rotherglen School in Oakville. "At the heart of the Foundation's purpose is the goal to create awareness within our students of their role in helping others who require their assistance, and that as individuals, their efforts can make a difference. Through the REACH Foundation, our students will come to understand how civic responsibility and philanthropy are linked." The income generated by the endowment fund will be granted each year to charitable causes as determined by a REACH student-led board. "Rotherglen itself will not benefit financially in any way from the establishment of the REACH Foundation. Our reward will be the opportunities that the foundation creates for our students to build community and instill values in us," said Lanigan.