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March 2010: Childcare Worldwide

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Every day over 5,760 more children become orphans.  Every single day.

I sat down with Dan Bue, Executive Director of Childcare Worldwide based in Surrey, to ask what differentiates his organization from other child relief agencies.  “We focus on children, but we also help them as they become adults to get trained for careers to support themselves.  We don’t just drop them when they turn 18, like some other organizations will.”  He went on to talk about the trade school they’ve built for former orphans, and how CW has managed to employ many kids formerly supported by donors to work making clothes for current orphans.  

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February 2010: Women’s Resource Society of the Fraser Valley

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Did you know that 15% of all violence reported to the police in Canada is within a family? That is an awful statistic.

I recently sat down with Pamela Willis, Executive Director of the Women’s Resource Society of the Fraser Valley. The organization’s head office is in Mission, in a cozy-looking brick building up on the hill. Pamela has a soft voice and unimposing demeanour, but her passion for helping women is powerful. She begins by giving me a brief history of WRSFV, and I’m amazed to learn that the idea of women’s shelters is very new.

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January 2010 – WorldServe Ministries

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Most people don’t know what they really, truly want in life. I know this because I ask whenever I get the chance.  It’s easy to see, though.  Whatever you spend the most time on, be it work, relationships, fitness, a cause, that is what’s most important to you, and that’s what you want. It’s not what you say… it’s what you DO.

So with that thought in mind, I’m writing this monthly Fraser Valley Charity Spotlight with the goal to inform and make relevant practical ways to impact the world around us. Because we can’t find important what we don’t know yet.  

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