Mouthwatering auction items!

The Month of Mothers eBay auction is in full swing and we’ve got some auction items that are sure to make your mouth water!

Enjoy the expertise of chefs Trish Magwood, David Rocco and Anthony Sedlak at the dinner table with these great cookbooks signed by the authors:

• The Main: Recipes: The Main, with Chef Anthony Sedlak, is one of the Food Network’s most stylish programs. In this handsome book, Sedlak divulges the best recipes from the show so that everyone can re-create his signature dishes at home.
• Dish Entertains: Everyday Simple to Special Occasions: Dish Entertains is exactly the book needed by time-starved chefs who want both innovative and classic entertaining recipes—simple, beautiful and always deliciously fabulous.
• Made In Italy: Over two hundred extraordinary recipes, offering simple, delicious fare from all over Italy, make this cookbook utterly desirable for any food lover and cook. For the armchair traveller and pleasure-seeking gourmand, Made in Italy is a trip worth taking.
• In My Mother’s Kitchen: Three generations of simple, delicious family food: In My Mother’s Kitchen is an unapologetically nostalgic look at food and memory, but from a modern, busy-mom perspective. You can go home again, but bring the Cuisinart with you!

Want someone else to cook for you? We also have dinners at some amazing restaurants up for auction:

• Dinner for four at The Melting Pot Richmond Hill fondue restaurant in Ontario
• One-night stay at ARC The Hotel in Ottawa and $200 Le Café restaurant certificate
• Dinner for two at celebrity Chef Lynn Crawford’s Ruby Watchco restaurant in Toronto

All proceeds go to empowering mothers and their families around the world. You can bid on these, and many more wonderful CARE auction items on eBay.

Walk In Her Shoes

By guest blogger Heather Barnabe, Senior Officer, Ambassador Relations & Events, CARE Canada

If you have been reading the CARE Canada blog, you are well aware of CARE Canada’s innovative Walk In Her Shoes campaign. For those of you new to the blog, Walk In Her Shoes challenges people to simulate the experiences of women and girls living in developing nations by walking 8,000 steps a day for 8 days, while raising funds and awareness.

The campaign started more than two months ago and since then, we’ve heard from participants across the country who have taken Walk In Her Shoes to the next level.

On Sunday, May 20th, Sarah Jamieson will run 101km in 6km (8,000-step) intervals over the span of 14 hours.

The Sole Sisters, a team of mothers and daughters, committed to walking 87,500 steps each over a challenge period of 14 days. To meet their goal, they walked every evening to pick up their daughters from school, a return trip estimated at 7km. Maria Calleja ,the Sole Sisters team captain, exclaimed how excited the daughters especially were to participate in the walk.

Staff at CI Investment loved the challenge so much they returned again this year. Investing their break times and lunches for eight days to take on the WIHS challenge, they raised over $3,000.

Staff at CI Investment invested their break times and lunches for eight days to take on the WIHS challenge.

And there’s still more exciting events coming up! This Sunday, runner (and superhero!) Sarah Jamieson will run 101km in 6km (8,000-step) intervals over the span of 14 hours.  Very passionate about raising awareness, Sarah is holding a ‘Documentary Screening and Salon Conversation’ event to fundraise towards her WIHS goal.

Tunchai Redvers, a participant from Yellowknife, will be carrying buckets of water for 8,000 steps for 8 days. She is pulling together her community in Yellowknife to walk around Frame Lake in solidarity with women and girls around the world.

There’s still time to get involved! Sign up now at care.ca/walkinhershoes!

Signed World Junior hockey jersey

Bid on the Team-Signed 2012 Women’s Team Canada World Junior hockey jersey on the Month of Mothers eBay auction!

Canada’s National Women’s World Junior Hockey team has won nine world titles, three Olympic gold medals and 12 3-Nations/4-Nations Cups – all since 1990. The success of the team has helped women’s hockey registration numbers skyrocket in the last decade.

You can feel like a part of the team with this amazing 2012 Team Canada Junior hockey jersey signed by all 22 inspiring team members.

Generously donated by CARE Ambassador of Change Cassie Campbell-Pascall, all proceeds from the hockey jersey go to empowering mothers and their families around the world.

Check out the Team Canada hockey jersey and all the other great items on CARE Canada’s Month of Mothers eBay auction!

Visit the studio of ET Canada

Do you crave breaking news about celebrities and entertainment? Ever wonder what it takes to put together a show that covers music, movies, television, fashion and more?

Now you can find out! Place a bid on CARE Canada’s Month of Mothers auction on eBay. Running until May 23, the auction features a series of fantastic auction items including an Entertainment Tonight Canada VIP Experience.

A visit to the set of Canada’s entertainment destination is a must for any ET Canada fan. Thanks to CARE Canada Ambassador of Change Kim D’Eon, you will get to:

• Meet the Entertainment Tonight Canada host
• Tour the studio with the director
• Watch a show taping from the control room

All the money raised in our Month of Mothers auction goes directly to CARE Canada, helping empower mothers around the world to be healthy, educated and able to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

A fun day in the studio of ET Canada and helping mothers worldwide – an amazing opportunity!

Visit the CARE Canada Month of Mothers auction for all the details and to check out the other items up for grabs!

Attention Hockey Fans

Hockey star Cassie Campbell-Pascall donates items for CARE auction on eBay to empower mothers

Mother’s Day may have come and gone, but this May, you can continue to honour mothers during CARE’s Month of Mothers. From May 13-23, CARE is featuring several terrific auction items on eBay, with proceeds going to empower mothers and their families around the world.

CARE’s newest Ambassador of Change, hockey star Cassie Campbell-Pascall has generously donated several items that we think you’ll love (especially if you love hockey!)

• 1-hour hockey lesson with Cassie Campbell-Pascall – Whether you’re a hockey fan or a hockey player, this is an incredible opportunity to learn skills from a hockey great!
• Hockey jersey signed by Cassie – You have a chance to own a hockey jersey signed by the only Canadian hockey player, male or female, to captain two Canadian teams to Olympic gold medals.
• Signed copy of Cassie’s inspirational book H.E.A.R.T. – Written for Canadian youth, in her own words, Cassie provides insight into what it takes to succeed in life and hockey.

Now’s your chance to bid on these, and many more wonderful CARE auction items on eBay.

CARE Canada is on eBay!

During the Month of Mothers, you can bid on amazing gifts while also helping to empower mothers around the world to be healthy, educated and to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. CARE has partnered with eBay to hold an online auction for ten days, starting today and running until May 23^rd.

All the great items up for grabs:

• One-Hour Hockey Lesson with Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Cassie Campbell-Pascall
• Entertainment Tonight Canada VIP Experience
• Dinner for two for Ruby Watchco Restaurant in Toronto
• Foursome of Golf at Eagle Creek Golf Club in Dunrobin, Ontario
• Foursome of Golf at Le Maître de Mont-Tremblant, Québec
• 1 Night Stay at ARC The Hotel in Ottawa and $200 gift certificate for Le Café Restaurant
• Dish Entertains: Everyday Simple to Special Occasions signed by the author Trish Magwood
• In My Mother’s Kitchen: Three Generations of Simple, Delicious Family Food signed by the author Trish Magwood
• The Main: Recipes signed by the Author Anthony Sedlak
• H.E.A.R.T. signed by Cassie Campbell
• Made in Italy signed by the author David Rocco
• Scotiabank Hockey Club NHL hockey jersey signed by Cassie Campbell
• 2012 Team Canada World Junior Hockey jersey signed by all 22 team members of the women’s team
• Team Canada hockey jersey signed by Cassie Campbell
• Crabtree & Evelyn gift basket and pampering gift certificate
• Starbucks gift basket with coffee, teas and mugs
• Dinner for four at The Melting Pot Richmond Hill fondue restaurant

Visit the CARE Canada page on eBay to start bidding. If something else on eBay catches your eye, don’t forget to give a donation at check out anytime during the month of May!

Happy Mother’s Day!

Florinda Sose Mali is a mother of five children and an active member of her community.

Today is one of the year’s most important days in the CARE Canada calendar. On Mother’s Day, we honour the amazing mothers that we have the opportunity of working with in communities around the world, from Kenya to Indonesia to Canada.

We know that when mothers around the world are empowered to be healthy and educated, they lift not only themselves out of poverty, but their families and their communities.

To all the moms, thank you for everything!

Learn more about CARE Canada’s Month of Mothers campaign at care.ca.