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 23rd.
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!
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.
This May, honour your mother and all she has given you by helping mothers around the world do the same for their families. Give a unique CARE gift and you will give the gift of empowerment.
Plant a row of trees
What better way to support a vulnerable community than the gift of a sustainable, healthy source of nutrition? It’s a gift that truly keeps on giving.
Provide vocational training CARE provides training in everything from better farming techniques to starting a small business. A vocational training class is a door to a better future.
Give the gift of a safer birth Healthy mothers raise healthy children and create vibrant communities around the world. Your gift of a midwife for a month will keep a mother healthy and help her deliver a healthy baby. What gift could give more than that?
Mother’s Day is less than a week away. You’re probably scrambling to come up with a unique and meaningful way to celebrate with your mom. This year – why not skip the busy brunch crowd and host your own? Even better, why not make it a fundraising event?
During CARE’s Month of Mothers, we encourage you to honour your mom by fundraising for mothers around the world. It’s so easy! Simply create an online fundraising page featuring your mom, throw an event in her honour and ask for donations! You’ll even have a chance to win a wonderful gift basket!
The best gift this Mother’s Day is a gift to CARE that will help empower mothers around the world to be healthy, educated and able to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Learn more.
As a mom, you know how important you are to your child every time you wipe tears from a red-cheeked face, feed a hungry tummy or pass on a sage piece of wisdom that only a mother knows. Just by being there every day, you give a lot to your child – just as your mother was there for you.
This month, we’re asking Canadians to honour their mothers and all they have given by helping mothers around the world. The Month of Mothers campaign is raising funds to support maternal, newborn and child health programming as well as other projects to empower women and girls around the world.
Support moms around the world by sharing your Mother’s Day. As your children start poking around for Mother’s Day gift ideas, ask them to give a gift that really shows how much mothers matter – a gift to CARE’s Month of Mothers campaign in your honour will help to empower mothers around the world to be healthy, educated and to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. It’s a gift that means the world – and gives more than flowers ever could!
Last year, CARE reached more than 41 million women, men and children with information and services to improve maternal health, and 26 million children and their family members with information and services to improve child health and nutrition. Help us reach even more – ask for more than flowers!
Guest post by Suzanne Charest, CARE Canada’s Director of Marketing and Communications.
As our rickshaw driver pedaled through Delhi’s narrow streets, the sight of fruit sellers and street hawkers did little to distract me from reflecting on my first visit to a CARE project. Before joining CARE, I spent a lot of time researching CARE’s mission. Even a quick scan of their website tells you that their primary focus is empowering women and girls. At the time, I wondered how that translated to their projects in real terms. Little did I know, I would soon find out.
A women’s group meets in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India.
The project I visited was located in the village of Nagapattinam, a six-hour drive south from Chennai. Our three-vehicle convoy weaved through the muddy streets to the community centre, where dozens of women had gathered to learn about insurance.
As part of CARE’s tsunami response program, it partnered with Allianz Insurance to provide affordable insurance premiums to some 3,500 villages, covering 130,000 households and distributing 325,000 insurance plans
I quickly learned how important this program was to the community. The state of Tamil Nadu is located in the south-eastern region of India, and was heavily impacted by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2008, Cyclone Nisha also wreaked havoc on the region’s poor coastal communities, submerging two districts, affecting 16,000 households and causing extensive damage. Only about two per cent of India’s 1.2 billion people have some form of personal, property or life insurance, leaving them incredibly vulnerable to the impacts of a major disaster. Due to the micro-insurance program, over 14,400 families affected by Cyclone Nisha received compensation totalling 43 million Indian rupees.
The women gathered in the community centre in Nagapattinam ranged in age from 18 to 70. Some cradled small infants in their laps, others wiped away perspiration from their foreheads. They were treated to a humorous play about a woman who, unbeknownst to her husband, had purchased insurance through the project. Her husband (played by a woman in costume) loses his leg in an accident. He reacts in anger, but is comforted to find out that the insurance she purchased will help their family through this trauma.
Vadivazhagi Senthi Kumar with her son.
At the end of the play, our group, with representatives from CARE Canada, Austria, Denmark, USA and several other countries, were invited to present insurance checks to a dozen women in the audience. Vadivazhagi Senthi Kumar, 27, broke into tears as she received her cheque for 10,000 Indian rupees (approx. $185 CAD). Her 33 year-old husband, a truck driver, recently passed away and left her with two children, aged 4 years and 18 months, to raise on her own.
“Through these funds I am really able to work now, and will be able to support my family,” she said. “I know I must live for my children and don’t know what I would have done without these funds and the support of the self-help group.” Ten thousand rupees could purchase a dairy cow or four goats for her family.
As part of this CARE program, women are brought together to pool their resources through monthly contributions, to leverage loans, and to ultimately help their members when the need arises. Through this program they have also learned about the benefits of insurance.
As my colleague at CARE India noted, “The loss of livelihoods and property in disaster-prone communities like Nagapattinam can take these communities ten steps backwards but this micro-insurance program brings them five steps forward.”
Colleagues from CARE Norway visited the project with us and edited a short video interview with Vadivazhagi Senthi Kumar. Captions are in English.
By guest blogger Kathy Wong, CARE Canada’s Ambassador Relations and Events Manager. Kathy leads a team of dedicated CARE staff who manage fundraising events and campaigns, as well as the CARE Ambassadors of Change program.
Today, on the launch of CARE’s Month of Mothers campaign, I am pleased to announce Cassie Campbell-Pascall as our new Ambassador of Change. Cassie is a hockey player who led the Canadian national team to two Olympic gold medals and one silver medal. As a broadcaster on Hockey Night in Canada, Cassie is seen by millions of Canadians coast-to-coast each week.
As a new mom, Cassie is well aware of the risks to mothers and their babies during and post pregnancy. It is a natural fit for her to be the face of CARE’s Month of Mothers campaign.
The Month of Mothers campaign encourages Canadians to honour their mothers, and mothers around the world, throughout the month of May. This includes making a donation in honour of your mother, purchasing a unique CARE gift or holding a fundraiser. This support will help CARE empower mothers around the world to be healthy, educated and able to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
I chose CARE to partner with because I wanted an organization that was truly making a difference in the lives of women and children around the world. I did my due diligence and researched organizations to support and in the end I chose CARE because it was the right choice. I was impressed with what CARE does right from the beginning and their mission to empower women and girls aligns with my own personal values.
- Cassie Campbell-Pascall
CARE is honoured to welcome Cassie to its roster of powerful ambassadors. Join Cassie and learn how you can help CARE defend dignity and fight global poverty at www.care.ca.
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 23rd.
