The success of the YMCA is indisputable. One only need look around the communities of Grand Bahama to see the success stories.

Many of our business owners and executives, doctors, lawyers, engineers and Members of Parliament are products of the YMCA.

Indeed the YMCA has been a significant factor in the development of the people who are building the Bahamas today.

The YMCA structure, as we previously knew it, was built in 1970, some 34 years ago, when Freeport was still very much in its infantile stage of development.

Like our present effort, it was a project owned by the community. Operating with the same mission that defines it?s purpose today, the YMCA of yesteryear served a community of individuals who came to take part in, and benefit from, the vision that Wallace Groves created.

It was a YMCA that was largely and generously supported by the corporate citizens and civic groups of Freeport. It was a YMCA that benefited from strong alliances with neighboring YMCAs.

Most importantly, it was a YMCA that was the ONLY option for children, teens and adults alike for recreation and physical activity. It was ground zero for the majority of team sports that were played on the island; creating multitudes of local sports heroes and aficionados.