"Yo Bro has helped me improve so much, I make better decisions now. I used to sit around and play video games all day. Now I don’t see the point in that.”

"If immigrant and refugee youth don’t get connected to the community quickly, they find themselves following people they shouldn’t...It easily could’ve been me.”

I can’t imagine life without Yo Bro | Yo Girl - it’s family.

"There’s a lot of potentials that was lost. And It was all because when these guys were teenagers, there were people who influenced them very negatively."

"When they are here at YBYG wrestling, they know they are in a safe zone and that they have a brighter future ahead and family they can rely on. Because that’s what YBYG is - it’s a family.”

"One of my favourite parts of YBYG is having so many friends there who are a few years ahead of me in life. Their advice is so important to me - it gives me perspective and support that I wouldn’t find elsewhere."

"I wanted to believe I could be more than a ghetto kid. Through Yo Bro, I started to gain confidence, talked more and felt better about myself in general.”

"Joe has shown me what it means to be a man; one who is connected to his community, provides for his family and who doesn’t give up on those that he loves."