Yavapai Big Brothers and Big Sister.

We all know someone close to us that is raising a child on their own without the help of a mother or a father. This means that that literally this child does not have a father or a mother to teach them the mannerisms or characteristics that are supposed to be instilled by that person. It’s a tragedy, but these days some people can’t stand by their children and raise them because they are merely children themselves.

Yavapai Big Brothers and Big Sisters is a program that was started in Arizona in 1971 and it is all volunteers that give out of their spare time to hang out with someone’s son or daughter and give them that male or female bonding time that is crucial in the beginning years of ones life. There are some pretty impressive statistics on how this organization is helping out our community. Such as 46% of little brothers and sisters are less likely to initiate drug use and 27% are less like to start drinking at a younger age and the list goes on and on.

I will be reading articles out of local newspapers and interviewing a couple of my close friends that are currently volunteers in this program so that I can take a deeper look at this problem and how it is slowly but surely being attended to.