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To enable each community to provide for school-age children a hot, nutritious, culturally reflective breakfast in a social educational and stimulating environment. ABOUT US For more than 40 years, The Children’s Breakfast Clubs has provided healthy meals and educational, cultural and recreational activities to children across Southern Ontario, in a respectful and dignified manner. While originally focused on breakfast, we have expanded our offerings to include lunch programs at select clubs, ensuring children receive nutritious meals throughout the day to support their growth, learning, and overall well-being. OUR HISTORY Our doors opened in 1984 after it was determined that many community needs and concerns could be addressed with a breakfast program. Today, The Children's Breakfast Clubs operate as a non-profit organization in over 39 clubs. OUR IMPACT Quite often, hunger is invisible to the untrained eye and children are less likely to disclose this information to adults. Starting the day with a healthy breakfast has a proven track record that leads to improved overall health, decrease in behavioral issues, higher self-esteem and confidence levels, as well as better academic performance and extra-curricular participation. Using a holistic approach, we also deliver educational, cultural and recreational programs that help children aged 5 to 18 develop social, physical and cognitive skills.
The Kids with Cancer Society strongly believes that comprehensive family centered programs are essential to effectively treat children with cancer. Programs and services provided by the Society support the following: - Children between the ages of 0 - 17 - Residents of Northern Alberta and N.W.T. - Siblings of children with cancer - Childhood cancer survivors - Bereaved families - The childhood cancer medical community
Lions Foundation of Canada operates Dog Guides Canada, a national school which trains and provides Dog Guides at no cost to Canadians with visual, hearing or other physical or medical disabilities. The Dog Guide programs are Canine Vision Canada, Hearing Ear, Special Skills,Seizure Response and Autism Assistance Dog Guides.
McNally House opened its doors in April 2008. This free-standing, six suite, home-like residence provides, free of charge, 24-hour specialized palliative care to people living with a terminal illness, as well as those in their life circle. The hospice is a non-profit organization serving the Niagara West communities of Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln. McNally House is Ontario’s first rural teaching hospice and has been recognized nationally as a leader in palliative care. Along with the highly skilled professional staff, McNally over 120 volunteers who give of their time and talents each week to help the residents and their families deal with life’s greatest challenges. While the Ministry of Health & Longterm Care provide partial funding, over $500,000 is needed each year to keep the doors open. McNally House is truly grateful and blessed to have the continuous financial support of the community who believe that everyone has the right to die in peace, comfort and dignity.
The North Shore Stroke Recovery Centre (NSSRC) was initially founded in 1974 by a group of six stroke survivors wishing to meet and support one another post stroke. Since that time the NSSRC has become the main service provider of post hospital stroke recovery and community re-integration services for individuals and caregivers living with stroke. We offer a peer-and volunteer-supported group atmosphere with access to speech therapy, music therapy, exercise therapy and much more. The organization serves the communities of North and West Vancouver, with over two hundred local residents supported annually.
From modest beginnings almost 100 years ago, Wood’s Homes has grown into a multi-service agency helping Canada's most troubled young people. Programs are now located in Calgary, Strathmore, Lethbridge, Canmore, Ft. McMurray, and Ft. Smith. NWT. We are a nationally accredited, non-profit organization that serves 20,000 troubled young people & their families from across Canada every year. We operate over 30 programs & services including: 24/7 intensive residential treatment, in-home family support, crisis intervention, community outreach, foster care, addiction/substance abuse treatment, no-fee, walk-in counselling.
ADRA operates worldwide in approximately 134 countries. ADRA seeks to identify and address social injustice and deprivation in developing countries. ADRA invests in the potential of individuals through community development initiatives targeting Food Security, Economic Development, Primary Health and Basic Education. ADRA's emergency management initiatives provide aid to disaster survivors. ADRA recognizes the dignity that is inherent in each person and is committed to improving the quality of human life. It serves people without regard to their ethnic, political, or religious association. It helps those in need, especially those most vulnerable, such as women and children.
The BC SPCA is a provincial non-profit organization funded primarily by public donations. Our mission is to prevent cruelty and to promote the welfare of animals through a wide range of services, including cruelty investigations, emergency rescue and treatment, sheltering and adoption of homeless and abused animals, humane education, advocacy, farm animal welfare, spay/neuter programs, and wildlife rescue and rehabilitation. You may also donate directly to the BC SPCA through our website at www.spca.bc.ca
In the past year, The Food Bank of Waterloo Region, assisted approximately 28,000 neighbours in Waterloo Region. Yearly, The Food Bank distributes over 3 million pounds of food to community individuals who are facing challenging circumstances. Food is distributed through a partnership of 76 member agencies and community programs which provide emergency food hampers and meals. For a full description of our programs and food distribution, please see our website at www.thefoodbank.ca. If you would like a copy of our annual financial statement, please contact us at (519) 743-5576.
Child & Women International Development (CHWID) is an International Humanitarian and Development Organization under Canadian law registered under the Charitable Registration Number 1176816941 whose headquarter are based in Bourlamaque, Quebec in Canada and in the State of Delaware/USA under number 10090150, which campaigns to improve living conditions, alleviating the suffering of vulnerable people and promoting the development of the most disadvantaged areas in favor of women and children. www.chwid.org Vision: Provide humanitarian assistance and carry out CHWID development and charity actions with vulnerable populations who are victims of multiple causes around the world. MISSIONS. The general mission is to improve the quality of life and the future of children, women and other vulnerable people. It also has for mission, in Canada, in France, in Africa, in Europe and in the rest of the world: - to provide assistance and humanitarian aid and to carry out CHWID and charitable actions with vulnerable populations due to political, ethnic, economic or social oppression, war, disaster, ecological threat or any other emergency or underdevelopment, in order to meet their basic needs. - to collect and disseminate to the public, the media and decision-makers, by various means of expression and initiatives, information on the situations encountered. - to promote the image and development of women and children, their involvement in civil and social life, mutual aid and solidarity, assistance and consolidation of the group spirit; - to promote the urban or local social development of women, girls and children of the world through education, training, culture, sport, supervision of young people, disabled and disadvantaged children, social integration, training, cultural mediation, medical and humanitarian aid; - promote sustainable development in the world by encouraging and financing micro-projects, the activities of women in the informal sector, the participation of women and young people in development, the environment, the fight against delinquency, exclusion, violence, illiteracy, AIDS, famine, STDs and other scourges; - promote the exchange of ideas and group dynamics, - rehabilitation and construction of road infrastructure and support to governments. - Promote apprenticeship of trades for a better future; - Promote the reintegration of unmarried mothers and other young people through psychosocial skills.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal inherited disorder, affecting mainly the lungs and the digestive system. In the lungs, where the effects of the disease are most devastating, CF causes severe respiratory problems. In the digestive tract, CF often results in extreme difficulty in digesting and absorbing adequate nutrients from food.