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Building a brighter future for families living in extreme poverty through new home construction.

We match caring adult mentors with children, primarily from single parent homes.

The Mission Hospice Society has been providing care and support to the dying and bereaved in the community, hospital and long-term care homes since 1985. Programs and services are provided in people's homes, hospital, long-term care facilities and the Christine Morrison Hospice.

Abbeyfield is a retirement home with a difference – an affordable small-scale, family-style home with a live-in House Coordinator, providing full room and board for seniors who no longer want to live alone but do want to remain as independent as possible. It provides a friendly, supportive and homey atmosphere, with a balance between independence and security, privacy and companionship. Support from the community is vital to the continuing existence of the Abbeyfield home. Your donation makes a huge difference.

Kids' World is a registered non-profit society providing social services to children, teens and their families. We have been in existence since 1989 boasting over 50 volunteers that serve regularly. We are committed to facilitating children in making better choices - choices that enhance their future, not limit it. Our clients include children at risk from single parent homes, disenfranchised homes, institutional homes, as well as children at risk due to poverty.

Total Communication Environment (TCE) is a non-profit charitable organization that provides lifetime residential support, community participation, day services and outreach to long term care for for adults with multiple disabilities and special communication needs. Adapting to the needs of the individuals living at TCE, we provide support across various residential settings including group homes, apartments and town homes, as well as outreach to a number of long term care homes in the Ottawa area.

Community Support Services of Niagara is a volunteer based not-for-profit agency providing comprehensive client-driven community support services to help seniors and adults with disabilities live independently in their own homes. CSSN staff feels that their daily work is meaningful; impacts those in the community and allows our clients to live their lives to the fullest. Services include: Homemaking, Meals on Wheels, Lunch Out, Transportation, Friendly Visiting, Phone Chat, Home Maintenance & Repair, Safety at Home.

Habitat Services was established in 1987 to help address concerns of boarding homes with very poor living conditions and to improve the quality of life for tenants. The concept of using a contract to standardize services and improve housing standards in boarding homes was developed. The details were worked out in consultation with consumer/survivors, advocates, representatives of the provincial and municipal governments, mental health workers and boarding home owners/operators. The result was the Habitat Services contract model which is unique in Ontario. It is based on a contract between Habitat Services, a non-profit agency, and the owners of private sector and non-profit boarding homes. Regular monitoring of the houses ensures compliance with the contract standards. On-site housing support services for tenants are provided. Habitat funded homes provide permanent housing for 931 adults at 45 different locations across Toronto.

Habitat for Humanity is an independent, non-profit home builder dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing. Our philosophy is “A Hand Up, Not A Hand Out”, and our mission is to provide affordable housing for low-income families in the Niagara Region. Habitat for Humanity Niagara, incorporated in 1993, achieves this through the construction or renovation of simple, decent, affordable homes. We improve the quality of life in our community by working to eliminate poverty housing. We seek partnership opportunities to work side-by-side with financially vulnerable families. Habitat houses are sold to families, not given to them free of charge. In addition, families help to build their own home. By building homes at low cost and not charging interest on the mortgage, Habitat for Humanity is able to provide an opportunity, or a "hand up", to buy a home for families that would not otherwise qualify for a conventional mortgage.

Conceived by a group of visionary parents of developmentally challenged individuals, Parents for Community Living was incorporated in 1989 as a not-for-profit charitable organization. The dream was to create an atmosphere where developmentally challenged adults could grow in physical, emotional and spiritual well-being and become valued members of our community. Currently, PCL has 7 residential homes for 32 developmentally challenged adults and 2 respite homes. The children's respite home houses 2 children on a permanent basis and 4 for respite care. The adult respite home second houses 2 adults on a permanent basis and 6 for respite care. The efforts and financial contributions of MCSS, MCYS, numerous friends, volunteers and parents have helped to make our dreams a reality. Continued support from the community and individuals is critical to meeting the needs for additional homes and expanded services.

Hope Haven Canada Ministries collects wheelchairs from individuals, nursing homes, hospitals and home medical supply companies; ships equipment to refurbishing shops in developing countries; distributes wheelchairs worldwide through our partners; and supports camps for disabled, wheelchair-using individual and their caregivers

Hearts for Change works to improve the quality of life to children living in a children's home in rural Kenya by partnering with the home and assisting in providing the necessities of life for the children. We also focus on creating a loving and nourishing environment in which the children can live and grow to be successful members of society.