$10,000 towards the Fitzgerald Project from Frontiers Foundation Christmas Appeal
Frontiers Foundation is happy to report that $10,000 is being committed towards the Fitzgerald family, lowering our givemeaning.com fundraising effort to $50,000. The Finance and Fundraising Committee of Frontiers Foundation has authorized the immediate release of these funds.
We have $48,300 left to raise (as of February 7, 2008). We intend to build the Fitzgeralds a three bedroom frame house and our Regional Coordinator Lylas Polson is getting ready to start as soon as the weather allows. We still need funds and/or in-kind donations from the public at large in order to have a realistic completion of the fundraising effort. Every dollar counts towards the dream of safe and warm housing for the Fitzgeralds.
The Face of Unacceptable Poverty in Canada
Dan Fitzgerald is a good husband and father, but unable to work due to a serious disability. Neither he nor his Ojibwa wife Joanne, and two daughters, Jasmine (9), and DeAnna (8), qualify for any government housing assistance, so they have appealed to Frontiers Foundation / Operation Beaver - Canada's leading charitable housing provider. If you can help us to oblige, we'll be there.
Frontiers Foundation is trying to recruit volunteers and raise $60,000 to build a three bedroom frame house for the Fitzgerald family. Since 1964 Frontiers Foundation has built or renovated over 3000 homes and community halls throughout Canada. As a registered Canadian charity we focus our housing and education projects in some of the most remote communities in Canada - the communities most in need of basic housing and education. We are able to build or renovate homes in the most cost-effective manner possible due to our proven methods, vast experience, and volunteer workforce. We utilize volunteer labour from the local communities in which we build, the beneficiaries of the project (where able) and a worldwide volunteer force. Frontiers Foundation also has the unique capacity to utilize the natural resources of the rural communities in which we work by using our portable saw mills to create cheap building materials. In 2004 Frontiers was awarded the Best Practices in Housing Award by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation for the conversion of an old factory in Toronto converted into 75 geared to income apartments.
Frontiers Foundation has also been involved in projects aimed at eliminating poverty in Africa, Haiti and Bolivia to name a few.
Frontiers Foundation's headquarters are located at 419 Coxwell Avenue in Toronto, Ontario at our exciting new City housing project - Project Amik. You can contact us at 416-690-3930 or at www.frontiersfoundation.ca.
Frontiers Foundation is a registered Canadian charity operating as a non-profit aboriginal voluntary service organization that promotes the advancement of economically and socially disadvantaged communities.