The Charity
UNITY Charity is a youth led and artist driven anti-violence charity that teaches youth to use positive artistic expression to make positive life choices, making our communities stronger and safer. Through our performance driven programs and events, we display to possibilities of positive self-expressions to help boost self-esteem of youth while steering them away from violence, racism and other negative expressions.

We focus on turning negative situations into positive opportunities for creative expression. For example, we show how Hip-hop, an often negatively portrayed subculture is actually one of the most positive creative outlets available to youth.

Our Feature program “Hip Hop Away From Violence” reaches over 20,000 youth per year in and around the city of Toronto. Since 2003, Hip Hop Away From Violence has been in over 25 high schools, reaching over 25,000 youth in Toronto, Peel, York, Guelph and Durham Regions.

The Program
Hip Hop Away From Violence is UNITY Charity’s high school outreach program. Through our inspirational performance assemblies and follow-up artistic development workshops, UNITY provides positive artistic outlets for youth to express themselves instead of expressing themselves through violence, drug use, stereotyping, bullying and other negative forms of self-expression

We use POSITIVE Hip-hop and related creative outlets to truly engage youth and tell real stories that their peers can identify with. This in turn, increases mutual understanding among youth on relevant community issues.

This Website
The goal of this website is to provide youth with positive outlets for artistic self-expression online. We aim to give youth more positive opportunities to express themselves through the arts, give youth a voice through the arts as apposed to violence, drugs and other negative self-expressions.

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