OUR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Supporting Our Local Community
We do everything with a great deal of heart at Global Child Care Services, and we like to support the local community in which we work and live.
Over the years, our employees have donated hundreds of pounds of food to the Ottawa Food Bank and its satellites. We have collected and donated hundreds of warm hats and mitts for agencies such as the Snowsuit Fund of Ottawa and St. Mary’s Home, and we raised $67,306 for the United Way of Ottawa. Since 2015, we have been supporting the work of CHEO (the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario), to-date raising $70,768 for the CHEO Foundation across multiple campaigns.
Our Campaigns for CHEO
Campaign #1: Raised $6,000 for a Portable Transilluminator (December 2015)
Campaign #2: Raised another $6,000 for a second Portable Transilluminator (August 2016)
Campaign #3: Raised $6,000 for Eye Gaze Technology Equipment (July 2017)
Campaign #4: Raised $6,000 for Eye Gaze Technology Equipment (February 2018)
Campaign #5: Raised $12,500 for Bone Conduction Hearing Aids (May 2019)
Campaign #6: Raised $5,000 for a Cough Assist Machine (November 2019)
Campaign #7: Raised $6,000 for 2 Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitors (November 2021)
Campaign #8: Raised $4,329 for 10 Portable Oxygen Analyzers + $3,890 for the Child Life Dept. (May 2023)
Campaign #9: Raised $8,509 to support the important work of CHEO’s Child Life Dept. (September 2024)
Campaign #10: Raised $6,000 to further support the inspirational work of CHEO's Child Life Dept. (April 2025)
Supporting Our Global Community
Our compassion for children and families spills beyond the borders of the Ottawa area. In the past, we have mounted a variety of special fundraising campaigns to support some well-known causes, such as the rebuilding of Haiti following that country’s devastating earthquake in 2010 and some not so well-known which came to our attention, such as the money we raised so that school supplies could be purchased for the orphans and vulnerable children of Kulilela community school in Lusaka, Zambia. Our most enduring international passion project has been our 15+ year relationship with the Elimu Foundation in Kenya.
Global Goes Global – Our Passion Project
In the spirit of going global with our goodwill, Global Child Care Services adopted a new cause in 2011: the Upendo Nursery School project in Sabaki Village, Kenya.
Forged in June of 2011, our partnership with the Elimu Foundation in support of the hard-working community members and beautiful children of Sabaki Village quickly became an agency passion project.
We helped to build a school for young children in Kenya via a wide variety of fundraising activities across every program of our agency, as well as supporting those initiated by Elimu.
Throughout the construction process, regular reports and photos sent to us from Sabaki Village continued to reveal the startling truth – our cheerful, relatively simple fundraising efforts were going rapidly and directly into building the walls, roof, foundation and classrooms of a school for young children a world away. It was incredibly moving, heartwarming and gratifying to see how what we did there with relatively little effort made an enormous and life-changing difference there.
By January 2014, we had raised $23,000 for Upendo Nursery School. Soon after, it became known as Upendo Early Childhood Education Centre, its existence a source of community pride, its classrooms filled with students and learning.
We were thrilled to receive honourable mention when the ever-flourishing school updated its name to Upendo Sabaki Academy and painted exterior signage to create greater visibility in the community.
We maintain an ongoing relationship with Elimu and continue to support the school by fundraising for their digital reading program, teacher training, special events for the children, and their Familia Stawi (Thriving Families) program. Since our partnership began, Global Child Care Services has raised approximately $45,000 for Elimu.
Supporting Reconciliation in Canada
Global Child Care Services fundraises for national causes too! To mark the 5th National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we launched a fundraising campaign for the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund, a registered national charity that aims to build cultural understanding and create a path towards reconciliation through awareness, education and action.
