Downtown Eastside - Old Town - Corktown : Featured Stories

Zoe Hayes and Caitlin Carlisle wanted to get kids rolling, so they started Charlie's Freewheels, a volunteer-based community program that teaches bike mechanics and career development to Regent Park youth.

Jo Altilia founded Literature for Life in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood and is fostering both a love of reading and a sense of leadership and capability in young mothers.

Downtown Toronto's Salvation Army Gateway shelter has turned a liability -- its dirty laundry -- into a revenue source and in the process given homeless men steady employment and work experience.