In Support of Indigenous Children programs
Kevin and Debora Nosworthy Family Fund
My name is Kevin Nosworthy and my wife is Debora; we have lived in Maple Ridge for the past 34 years and are very proud to call Maple Ridge home.
Along with my wife we run a small Financial Planning company that for many years marketed The Chamber of Commerce Group Insurance. This allows us to meet many business owners and their employees in Maple Ridge. Ever since moving to Maple Ridge we have wanted to be part of the growth of the city but loved the small town feeling that Maple Ridge provided for our family.
I have been involved in volunteering since the day we moved here and was welcomed to The Maple Ridge community Foundation where I am currently in my nineth year sitting on the board.
In May 2021 while watching the news my wife and I heard of the detection of approximately 200 unmarked burial sites in Kamloops, we both reacted in the same manner and couldn’t believe or understand what we were hearing.
Business was good and we decided to try and do something to remember these lives that were taking so soon. After talking it over we decided through The Maple Ridge Community Foundation we would start a fund in the names of these children.
We approached and started a fund that would give back in the names of these children to the Indigenous children programs that run in the local Katzie First Nation.
I was telling a friend about what we were doing, and he suggested we make a post on Facebook, not wanting to promote what we were doing he encourages that you never know who may want to add to our total of $2150. With the help and kindness of our friends and family the fund currently sits at over $12, 500.
We are so proud to know that through The Foundation this fund will in a small way continue to help Indigenous children’s programs in perpetuity.
We always believe that a long journey begins with the very first step and through this fund we were able to connect to our community.
We have one daughter named Samantha and a grandson named Elliot and as we watch them offer their time and resources to the community, we know that our future through them is very bright.