100+ PEOPLE WHO CARE
Elgin Construction-Pledging 2 years in a row.
100 Plus People Each Pledging $100 to raise $10,000 Plus for Local Charity. Together making a big impact!
Thanks to the generosity of 200 individuals, each contributing $100, we not only hit our goal of raising $20,000 for local charity but also achieved a fantastic milestone. For the first time ever, every participating charity received a financial lift at our wrap-up event.
The theme of breaking down barriers echoed throughout, addressing vital issues like reducing isolation, promoting caregivers' self-care, igniting ambitious dreams in youth, offering tools and support for parents raising wonderfully complex children, creating a safe haven for 2SLGBTQI+ youth, and infusing indigenous healing traditions into a addictions and mental health recovery retreat.
All the presenting charities were deserving, but a special shoutout goes to Somerset Recovery Retreat, crowned the winner of the $10,000 prize. Thank you once again for your incredible support!
Somerset Recovery Organization
Spirit of Hope is a women's recovery retreat for ANY self-identified women struggling with mental health and addictions. This 12 step holistic program utilizes indigenous healing traditions including: sound healing, smudging, breath work, meditation and more.
The retreat helps to address internalized self hate and create space for self-love.
2022 RECIPIENT-HARVEST OUTREACH
Ending Hunger, Nourishing Hope
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Harvest Hands is a distribution centre for food donations rescued from growers, food processors, bakers, retailers and others.
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Harvest Hands picks up food donations from across Southern Ontario and bring it to their distribution centre in St. Thomas from where they re-distribute the food to a network of more than 205 agencies including food banks, soup kitchens, missions, emergency shelters, seniors and others.
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Since March 2020, Harvest Hands has provided necessary food to tens of thousands of the most vulnerable people in the region and currently, they are providing the equivalent of more than 45,000 meals per month, all of which is supplied at “NO CHARGE.”
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Harvest Hands is a 100% volunteer driven organization.
2021 RECIPIENT-INDWELL HOMES
Recipient Indwell Hope and Homes in support of a new Food Security Program at their Queen’s Street location in St. Thomas. The program will teach the 45 tenants how to prepare a meal on a budget and make healthy choices. While learning to cook with their peer they will gain a sense of belonging and community. They will also enjoy the meal they worked to prepare. A daily meal can be live changing in that it provides the nutrition needed for positive mental and physical health which can be translated into education, work and relationships.
2020 RECIPIENT
YWCA of St.Thomas Elgin won the grand prize for their Youth Independence Program: aims to provide a 3-month, classroom based, life-skill curriculum intended to teach life skills to at-risk youth, in order to reduce youth entering into homelessness, and to help them to thrive.
2019 RECIPIENT- EVERY KID AT CAMP
A program to kickstart a respite worker program so kids with exceptionalities can go to camp, and also give their parents a much needed break.