Charitable projects - Supporting children’s futures through meaningful partnerships.

Easter Seals BC/Yukon is a service of the BC Lions Society For Children With Disabilities. As a trusted charity since it began from the vision of the East Vancouver Lions Club, Easter Seals is dedicated to providing programs and services to persons with diverse abilities that help build their self-esteem, self-confidence and sense of independence.

Rural health care continues to be critical throughout Nepal, whether from recent dengue outbreaks, 100-year floods, prolonged monsoon seasons, poor maternity care or a myriad other factors. Through the efforts of CNMS and like-minded organizations adequate health care is provided for the disadvantaged. Our record of training paramedics and their subsequent service in caring for isolated villages demonstrates an effective way to help those in need.

Canada Nepal Medical Society will cease operations in 2025 after our currently sponsored student graduates from her program. Donations will no longer be accepted. Thank you for your interest and support over the past 19 years.

Since 1995, the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF) has been a vital bridge between Canadian generosity and Ukrainian resilience. Today, as Ukraine faces unprecedented challenges, your support is more crucial than ever.

Your support changes lives.

Every day, we transform Canadian compassion into real change on the ground in Ukraine. Through strategic partnerships and careful stewardship of donations, we:

• Provide life-saving humanitarian aid to civilians affected by war
• Deliver critical medical care through innovative surgical missions
• Support displaced Ukrainian families building new lives in Canada
• Preserve and celebrate Ukrainian culture and heritage

Kinvia is an international non-governmental organization with over 35 years of experience supporting children, youth, and their communities in overcoming systemic barriers to their rights to nutritious and culturally appropriate food.

We help people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and support them in strengthening their resilience.

Our Network

The Canadian Red Cross Society is part of the largest humanitarian network in the world, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. This network includes the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) and 192 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies dedicated to improving the situation of the most vulnerable throughout the world.

Canuck Place Children's Hospice provides complex pediatric palliative care for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families across BC and the Yukon. A full life has many meaningful moments, and at Canuck Place, we believe that the shortest lives should be the fullest of them all. Together, we support families in living the end of life as fully as the beginning.

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank was set up as a temporary relief to the hunger crisis in 1983 and has grown significantly in the four decades since then.

Today the GVFB sees over 800,000 visits from clients annually across Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster and the North Shore.

The Humanitarian Coalition brings together leading aid organizations to provide Canadians with a simple and effective way to help during international humanitarian disasters. Member agencies join forces to raise funds by mobilizing media, businesses and individual Canadians. Together, we are saving more lives.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to “doctors without borders”. We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare.

Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of professionals working in health and medical care, logistics, administration, communications, skilled trades – all bound together by our charter and serving people in need. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence, and neutrality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, we are a worldwide movement of over 67,000 people.

Founded in 1998, Operation Rainbow Canada (ORC) is a 100% volunteer, non-profit medical services organization that functions without paid staff. We have provided free reconstructive surgery and related health care for cleft lip and cleft palate deformities to needy children in developing countries ranging in age from infant to adult.

A child with a facial cleft deformity develops malnutrition, ear infections, dental problems and difficulty with speech development. In addition, without corrective surgery, these children born with deformities are often shunned, ostracized, denied schooling and eventually succumb to a solitary life lived in the protection of their homes.

Today, we are aware that the number of children with facial cleft deformities has been addressed and the need has decreased because of additional support from other organizations. We are now excited to move in a new direction with a different vision. Our future is to treat cleft lip and palate deformities, as well as post burn contractures and hand deformities both in children and adults. For future missions our selected medical volunteer team will be from Canada. We are actively seeking sites for host countries that need our services.

Oxfam Canada is an affiliate of the international Oxfam Confederation networked in 87 countries as part of a global movement for change.

Our mission is to build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice, focusing on improving lives and promoting the rights of women and girls.

We work directly with communities, partners and women's rights organizations to challenge the systems perpetuating inequality and keeping people poor. Together we seek to influence those in power to ensure that women trapped in poverty have a say in the critical decisions that affect them, their families and entire communities.

Because ending global poverty begins with women's rights.

PALS Autism Society is a dedicated elementary and secondary school in British Columbia for children and adolescents with autism, designated by the Ministry of Education as a special education school, accompanied by a licensed before and after-school care program.

PLEA's vision is a world where everyone has the opportunity for a good life and everyone counts. To fulfill this vision PLEA delivers unique services, tailored to individual strengths and needs, to children, youth, adults and families facing significant challenges so that they may live fulfilling lives within their communities.

For 25 years, Right To Play has worked in some of the most difficult and dangerous places on earth to help children to stay in school and graduate, resist exploitation and overcome prejudice, keep themselves safe from disease, and heal from the harsh realities of war and conflict.

The Stephen Lewis Foundation is a progressive, feminist organization rooted in the principles of social justice, international solidarity, and substantive equality. The SLF was created with the express purpose of supporting community-led organizations working on the frontlines of the HIV epidemic in countries across Africa.

Many of these grassroots organizations were originally formed by small groups of individuals responding to the crisis AIDS had wrought in their own lives and in the lives of their neighbours. Over the years, they have developed into thriving local institutions with deep connections to their communities. The SLF's community-led partners are turning the tide of HIV and AIDS by providing care and support to women, orphaned children, LGBTIQ individuals, grandmothers and people living with HIV and AIDS.

The Stephen Lewis Foundation is ideological, and actively strives to meet the highest ethical and human rights standards in all of our work, including our policies and processes. We feel deeply accountable to the people and organizations we work with in Africa. The care, intensity, imagination, and sense of urgency with which we carry out this work reflects the depth of our commitment and the dedication of our staff members, volunteers, and supporters. These values and principles guide us in our decision-making and in challenging and shifting dominant paradigms around fundraising, partnering, and international development.

UNICEF Canada was founded in 1955 and is one of the 32 National Committees located in countries around the world. The UNICEF Canada team advances UNICEF's global mission through fundraising, advocacy and awareness in Canada. We mobilize and empower people across the country to invest in the positive transformation of every child's future.

We are committed to racial justice and a more equitable world for every child. Through our Strategic Plan 2022-2025, we are working to increase our impact for even more children in Canada and around the world, and to strengthen our role as the leading child rights advocate with governments.

Ultimate Spirit is an Indigenous focused program delivered by the BC Ultimate Society. Every perspective is welcomed and respected with the understanding that learning is most impactful when done symbiotically. It is a collaborative initiative that takes a holistic approach to health. The program acknowledges the importance and interaction of the physical, mental, spiritual, and cultural aspects of Indigenous communities in BC.

• Ultimate Spirit prioritizes the nurturing of fundamental values over individual or even team objectives. Participants learn and model values that create an atmosphere where the quality of the experience for the whole, is the objective. Paradoxically, this atmosphere creates a culture where each individual, and the whole, can reach their full potential. This process in turn reinforces the worth and impact of those values in other areas of life.
• Communities, as well as ISPARC have been consulted with and in the planning of the program.

Wigs for Kids BC began informally in 2006 when a group of friends decided to raise money to help a teenager buy a wig to wear to her high school graduation. The teenager came to the group's attention through their friend Maria Karimani, a stylist at Hennessey Hair Salon.

When the girl walked into the salon and asked to speak to Maria privately, Maria knew it had something to do with the worn, “fried-looking” synthetic wig she was wearing. She removed her wig and explained she had lost all her hair due to cancer treatment. She had one question: “Will my hair grow back in time for graduation?” Maria says, “I looked into her tear-filled eyes and gently told her no. Then we both stood there and cried.”

The group held a small silent auction and hoped to raise $3,000 – the approximate retail cost of one human-hair wig. When they raised over $24,000, they realized their fundraising efforts had the potential to make a difference in the lives of many more children living with cancer. Their mission to help one young girl became a vision to help as many B.C. children as possible.

Later that year, Wigs for Kids BC was established as a program out of BC Children's Hospital. In 2009, the hospital asked W4K to expand its mandate beyond wigs to include funding for essential drugs and feeding supplies for children that are not covered by MSP.