We are working with the Abluqta Society in Nunavut to get 13 boxes of kitchen items, tshirts and toys to the families in need. They also run a thrift shop there to get proceeds for their food bank so was great to be able to work with this group!
Thanks to everyone that bought tickets! We have raised 1700 this year! Congrats to the winner!
Can’t wait to get these toys out to the kids this year. Hoping to help a lot of families again this year!
We just received two skids of toys being donated to us. Can’t wait for the families to start getting these!
We were able to raise over $1500 with everyone contributing money towards a chance at winning a beautiful cooler that was made and donated to us! Congrats to the winner of a new cooler and thanks to everyone for contributing to this great cause!
10 jackets coming in from an amazing donation from National Sports! Thanks again for this amazing donation and it will go along way to helping families in need over the holidays!
A great donation coming in today! Some nice youth shoes and a Bluetooth speaker along with a skateboard and scooter. The joy of Christmas is upon us. :-)
Three boxes along with some baby items going out to a family in Winnipeg today! They are expecting a baby in February and we hope all this will help a lot!
Vehicle loaded full of toys and ready to be given out to children at our first sponsored event hosted by HAACO. Autism families were invited to have a fun couple hours and spend it with the community! Can’t wait to see the kids faces!
Lots of donations of clothing as well as a ton of stuffed animals and great toys being donated! Keep them coming!
4 boxes ready to go out to a family this Christmas! Filled with toys and essentials they needed! We are helping around 30 families this year up from 20 last year.
Started the wrapping of some of the toys we got early in the year!
Great new events welcoming in families of all situations for a great party with every kid receiving a toy from our donations!
We had one of these beautiful coolers made by a dear friend of the charity and tickets sold to raise money for wish for kids! We raised $1700 dollars which I cant wait to find a way to use this year to help families in need! Thanks again for everyone that bought tickets and here is the lucky winner with his cooler!
CONGRATS TO THE LUCKY WINNER!
Update for this year, we are well on our way to the best year! We have full racking of clothes, shoes, skates, toys and all kinds of Christmas decorations and some trees to be given to the waiting families and more money and items are coming in weekly! Can’t wait for this year to come! Already started reaching out to partners to find families in Winnipeg, Calgary and Toronto areas, hoping to get out east this year too!
While we impacted a lot of families lives this year, and through our partners we had all families loving what they got! But here are some that decided to send a card or an email as well!
2018 Toy Drive Breakdown:
20 Families helped by giving them their wish list they provided to us along with a lot of extra items (13 Toronto, 5 Calgary and 2 Winnipeg) A lot of the families are new to the country or have a lot of sad stories of running from their home country or just struggling health wise and managing so I was glad we added this to the wish for kids charity to help families and not just toys for kids.
70 Pairs of Shoes given to familes along with about 500 pieces of clothing collected to give out to families
700-800 toys delivered to different boys and girls groups across Canada.
400+ piece of clothing donated to families across Canada.
2 sets of ice fishing kits with ice augers sent to communities in Nunavut to help the elders provide for the town.
20 boxes wrapped full of food items to be donated to families as well!
Pictures below are of all the amazing donations we had bought or came in, also all the planning and sorting of families boxes for the 20 families we helped!
2017 Toy Drive Breakdown:
60 toys collected and wrapped for Grenoble Public School
40 children given a personalized gift of what they asked for along with other items we had, along with 20 girls in this section of the orphanage getting an elliptical they wanted and 20 boys in that area getting an xbox with four controllers and some games.
3 Skids of toys donated to FrontLines.to (roughly 350 toys)
30+ colouring books along with 10+ stuffed animals and 50+ toys given to St Michaels hospital to help with kids staying over the holidays.
Nintendo switch donated to Sick Kids hospital in Toronto to help brighten the days of the sick children staying over the holidays.
50+ toys donated Calgary catholic school board.
50+ toys donated to Calgary Police Department to give out to kids they work with.
120 toys donated to Cassandra Public School.
70+ toys donated to childrens aid.
160+ toys donated to salvation Army.
2016 - Toy Drive Breakdown
We delivered over 70+ toys and 9 stuffed animals over to Carleton Village Public School
200+ toys donated to Children’s Aid Foundation of Durham along with 80+ pieces of art supplies and construction paper.
50+ toys donated to Cassandra Public School
200+ toys donated to Kerr Street mission
80-100 donated to Peel Children’s Aid.
6 skids of items donated as well! Over 470+ toys donated to Peel region boys and girls groups.
We also helped an orphanage in Quebec by selecting 60-70 children in desperate need of some cheer and gave them personalized and wrapped gifts along with providing the facility with an xbox one with four controllers and rock band, along with a PS4 as well. This Orphanage has over 400 children, so the impact of these donations will go a long way!
A quote from the local person we worked with to get this all delivered:
“I get to see first-hand the impact that these thoughtful acts have.
I first got a tour of the Centre Jeunesse de Laval last year in October, much to my surprise there are 400 kids living in a converted nunnery, many are under 24 hour a day lock-down, while others are allowed to attend school and return in the afternoon. After the tour, I left in tears, wanting to adopt all 400 kids because it just didn’t make sense to me that 400 kids between the age of 10 and 17 didn’t have families they could go home to, let alone have nowhere to go at Christmas. After my family said we couldn’t adopt 400 kids, I knew I needed to find a way to help, try to make even a small difference in their lives.”
