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OUR CHARITIES
Here is a list of Registered Canadian Charities that are participating in the 2008 Universal Barter Group program.
AGAPE Life Center Church
www.lifecenter.ca
We are an inner-city church in Vancouver with a vision to see everyone set free to know their true Father. We also have a heart to touch the world with the richness of what we have received. At the Life Center, we place a high priority on missions, both at home and abroad. Locally, we are involved in ministering practically to the poor, providing food and clothing. We minister to the addicted and the prostitutes with their practical needs, as well as addiction recovery, and organizing half-way housing. We currently support 54 Ugandan school children, a missionary couple in Brazil, and we send out short term missionaries from our church. During this past year, members of the Life Center have ministered in Romania, Greece, Mozambique, South Africa, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Australia, and Korea.
Beth Israel Anshei Minik
www.theminsk.com
Downtown Toronto historical synagogue. Providing daily services, Jewish educational programs to the community with a focus on outreach for the poor and the homeless.
Brandon Street CDF
www.brandonstreet.com
Changing the lives of at-risk youth through social enterprise and mentoring. Brandon Street Community Development Foundation (Brandon Street CDF) is a charitable foundation that seeks to mentor youth to strive for excellence. Since 1987, Brandon Street CDF has been effective in helping youth expand their horizons and transform their lives. We offer development programs to urban youth, ages 6 - 24. We provide youth with the chance to interact with key role models to improve their access to opportunities and experiences. Through contact with mentors, educators and business leaders, we encourage youth to adopt meaningful goals, commit to personal development and contribute to their surrounding communities.
Canadian Mental Health
www.cmha.ab.ca
We are the provincial office for a nation-wide charitable organization which promotes mental health, provides support services and advocates on behalf of those living with mental illness and their families. It is estimated that one in five Canadians will suffer from a serious, diagnosed mental illness in their lifetimes. Common types on mental illness include depression and other mood disorders, schizophrenia and bipolar.
End Time Harvest Ministry
Our mission is to reach out to unsaved souls and to extend our hand to the needy. The End Time Harvest Ministry aids missionaries across the globe.
Family Life Foundation
www.flfcanada.com
Prevention is one of the main purposes of the FLF. The alleviation of physical poverty, mental stress, and spiritual despair: Knowing that poverty is the face of fear and ignorance, it seeks to replace fear with faith and ignorance with knowledge. The enhancment of the quality of life in the total community: Dr. Scott Peck, author of "The Road Less Travelled" and other books is also the founder of the Foundation for Community Enrichment (FCE) teaches that without community there can be no justice or peace. The FLF links with Dr. Peck and his foundation. Holistic Programs. The Foundation is a parent organization which sponsors a variety of holistic programs that are aimed to be preventive and curitive and give information about our physical, mental and spiritual nature.The FLF is non-sectarian and its services are available to anyone who needs them, regardless of religious background or economic circumstances.
Filippino Catholic Society of the Diocese of Calgary
The main mission of the Filippino Catholic Society of the Diocese of Calgary is to serve the poor and needy. Our mission: To assist financial needs of impoverished seminarians and other religious colleges; To give financial and /or medical aid to victims of calamities and disasters; To give support for infrastructure development; To give financial aid to churches in the form of food hampers, clothing and/ or medications. All of us are volunteers without pay. Our services are free. It is our love offering. Our main goal is to help those who are less fortunate.
Free The Children
www.freethechildren.com
Free The Children is the world's largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in our innovative education and development programs in 45 countries. Founded in 1995 by international child rights activist Craig Kielburger, Free The Children has a proven track record of success. The organization has received the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (also known as the Children's Nobel Prize), the Human Rights Award from the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, and has formed successful partnerships with leading school boards and Oprah's Angel Network. The primary goals of the organization are to free children from poverty and exploitation and free young people from the notion that they are powerless to affect positive change in the world. Through domestic empowerment programs and leadership training, Free The Children inspires young people to develop as socially conscious global citizens and become agents of change for their peers around the world.
Kids of the Future Foundation
To advance education by providing scholarships to university students and bursaries to those participating in educational courses at community centres. To relieve poverty in developing nations by providing food and other basic supplies to persons in need.
Liberty House of Worship
www.libertyhouseofworship.org
We hold spiritual congregational services and providing services within community: counseling, sports, play, seminars on current health-related issues for women, daycare, after school care, home service.
Liberty Wellness Initiatives
www.libertywellness.ca
Liberty Wellness Initiative Foundation was created to make a positive impact on lives around the world, specifically in the areas of education and healthcare. We believe everyone is entitled to be healthy and free from disease. We believe everyone has the right to learn and be educated. We believe everyone has the right to free from persecution and unjust rule. At Liberty , we are here to set in motion, a set of actions that will transform how the world interacts with one another in an effort to put in balance the difference between rich and poor. Basically liberty wellness donates medicines, hospital beds, water purification tablets and systems to countries in need. A lot of donations get distributed through GlobalMedic.
Los Frutos del Café
www.frutosdelcafe.org
International organization for sustainable community development. Its mandate is to eradicate povety, encourage education and preserve the environment in coffee producing communities. Our organization aims to give these communities the basic tools they need to help them progress and win in their struggle for the basic necessities in life. Our projects include: Clothing & toys drive, school supplies, school uniforms, sports equipment distribution; horticulture projects, hospital projects, medical clinics. Outreach for disaster and emergency relief medication.
Mission for Advanced Theological Education and Friends Committed to Caring (MATE)
www.matefcc.org
Education - serving 140 institutions in 41 countries (over 23 years) with books and computers to hospitals, schools, seminaries, university libraries. Medical missions, with a focus on health teaching, in partnership with local government agencies (ministries of health and education). Humanitarian projects: saw-milling, well-drilling, sewing machines, computer training and radio stations for educational purposes.
Mission Without Borders
www.mwbca.org
Mission Without Borders is a non-profit Christian organization dedicated to serving the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those suffering the effects of poverty or persecution. By involving those we serve, we recognize the dignity of the individual and help build capacity for self sufficiency. We serve people without regard to their religion or ethnic background. The focus of our ministry is orphaned and abandoned children living in institutions in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. We also work with poor families in each of these countries.
Multicultural Helping House Society
www.helpinghouse.org
We provide settlement support service, employment assistance, community development programs for ethnic seniors, youth, caregivers and families and capacity building programs for newcomers such as training new comers in civic engagement and public processes. Our service area is British Columbia and in particular Metro Vancouver Area.
St. Matthew's Parish
We are a parish church with 2500 member families and rely purely on donations from parishioners and friends. We are planning to build an elementary school and current funds are not yet adequate to break ground.
The Open House
www.theopenhouse.ca
The open house is a community of followers of Jesus Christ who have a heart for our city. We are unified by faith, committed to serving our community and compelled to touch the world with the love and hope of Christ. Our community is called the open house because, just as our name suggests, we want to be a place where people from all different backgrounds and life experiences can come together in a safe and welcoming space to explore the things of God, the Bible, and life. Our vision is to see interconnected small groups working together to benefit their respective neighbourhoods.
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