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Missions are affiliated at all times with state-sponsored institutions and are led by foremost Western medical professionals, all of whom volunteer their time and expertise. Surgical volunteers treat one face, one child at a time, despite the complexity of the case or the limitations that local conditions might place upon them.

Why Support Us Addiction is a serious disease that devastates individuals and families, and puts an enormous strain on our healthcare system, judicial system, and the safety of our community. "It is the Number One unresolved public health problem we face today. Yet addiction remains largely misunderstood, often stigmatized and viewed as a dark, shameful secret" according to Linda Bell of the Bellwood Foundation.

We are a Not-For-Profit Organization providing the following services in York Region: • Pregnancy Tests • Education on Options • Pregnancy Support • Life Skills Course • Prenatal Classes • Budgeting Classes • Clothing Closet • Community Referrals • Post-Abortion Program • High-School and Youth Groups “Abstinence” Program • One-on-One Counseling

The Sharing Farm grows food to feed Richmond families in need. The Farm is run by community members for community members, and is dedicated to providing fresh, healthy, local produce to our less fortunate neighbours. The Sharing Farm operates on a tiny budget, but thanks to the generosity of our over 1,000 yearly volunteers and the devotion of a small core of part-time staff, the Farm is able to provide thousands of pounds of fruits and vegetables every year to community meals throughout the city and the Richmond Food Bank. From a beginning involving collecting surplus fruit to give to the Richmond Food Bank, through growing vegetables on a small scale on donated land, The Sharing Farm Society now cultivates 5 acres between the Farm in Terra Nova Rural Park and our Orchard in south Richmond.

1. The Foundation sets up – for the Christmas period in particular – the delivery of gifts and the organization of recreational activities for AIDS sufferers living in these homes; 2. It also raises the awareness of the population to the needs of people living with AIDS and who carry the HIV virus; The Foundation will also, on occasion, distribute gift to people living in women’s or homeless’ shelters, especially during the Christmas season.

The Jordana Lokash Foundation was established by the family and friends of Jordana Lokash, who died in a car accident in March 1991. Jordana was a gymnast, majoring in Phys. Ed. at the time of her death. She was a camping enthusiast, who loved to work with children and aspired to use sport and physical activity to help others. The Foundation provides financial assistance for sport and health related programs that meet its approved objectives.

Our Goals & Objectives are to: 1. Promote and advance the physical, mental, and spiritual development of inmates in Canada through the practice of meditation and yoga. 2. To support meditation and yoga teachers who offer classes in correctional facilities. 3. To deliver a letter writing program that supports inmates in their practice of yoga and meditation.

We have forged partnerships with amazing Ethiopian NGO’s who are, like us, committed to providing a “hand up” not a “handout”. Beneficiaries of the programs contribute in some form providing local resources, labour, expertise, and wisdom in order to ensure local ownership and thereby sustainability We undertake all our activities with a sense of Joy and Gladness ever mindful of the trust that has been placed in our ability to keep our administration to a bare minimum and make use of each donation to effect real results “in the field”.

With a vision to improve the quality of life for those living with autism, the Sinneave Family Foundation was created in 2008 as a result of a generous gift from Albertans Jim and Marion Sinneave, and serves today as a hub of expertise in autism interventions, education and research. The Foundation brings together families dealing with the day-to-day reality of autism and internationally recognized autism scholars, professionals and various levels of government, with a goal of increasing access to a more consistent and improved standard of care for people of all ages living with autism. Considered rare only a decade ago, autism now affects one in every 150 babies born in Canada and is growing at a greater rate than any other developmental disability. Together with its partners, the Sinneave Family Foundation is committed to making progress on these issues and others, and to meeting its goal of improving the quality of life for those living with autism.

The Touching Tiny Lives Foundation strives for the healthy development of all children in Lesotho, and envisions accessible health and social services that enable families and communities to care for children affected by HIV/AIDS.

The Milos Raonic Foundation will harness resources in support of disadvantaged children. In particular, the foundation will support initiatives intended to reduce economic, physical and other barriers that might prevent the full integration of all children in the lives of their communities. In this stage of its work, The Milos Raonic Foundation will focus on children with physical disabilities and, especially, children in need of prosthetic devices that will enable them to reach their full potential.

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy or FSHD is the most prevalent of the nine primary types of muscular dystrophy affecting adults and children. Muscular dystrophy in general connotes a genetic, hereditary muscle disease that causes progressive muscle weakness. FSHD is also broadly characterized as a neuromuscular disease (NMD), as muscular dystrophy is a subset of NMD. Muscular dystrophies are alike in that they cause progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in the biochemical, physical and structural components of muscle, and the death of muscle cells and tissue. However, researchers believe that the causes of each of the muscular dystrophies are not necessarily the same.