For the Love of Haiti: Walk-Run
... for Haiti Relief - THIS SATURDAY!!!!!
Attend the Event - Facebook Page!
Purpose: to raise funds for the Canadian Foundation for the Children of Haiti.
Date: THIS Saturday, January 23rd 2010
Time: Registration 8:30 am at Ogden Point Café deck.
Start : 9am on the sidewalk by the Café
Course: 6K. Ogden Point to Clover Point, and back.
Frills?No frills! (No Entry Fee; No Marshals; No Aid Stations; No Water Stations; No Muffins at the End; No medical personnel). Well, we may have some snacks... and you can always grab a nice moka from the Ogden Point Cafe!
Teams or Singles:Teams* and Single Participants welcome. Only Teams will be eligible for prizes and need to register. *A team is made up of two runners who will be tied together at the wrist with a ribbon.
Prizes: 3 Awards - Awarded to the top three Teams who best predict their finish time.
Time Prediction? Each runner or team will predict their time for the 6K. No watches allowed on the route! (No cheating please!) RofC can tag and store your watch but will not be responsible if it is lost. (Please no Rolex’s, Timex fine).
Fund Raising: Please bring a cheque payable to Canadian Foundation for the Children of Haiti (website).
Goods Collection: We will also be collecting material goods to give to the Compassionate Resource Warehouse (website), Victoria, BC, Canada. Please check their website to see what items to drop off to be sent in a container at the end of the month. List of items: Click Here
== Foundation for the Children of Haiti Website==
"Since 1981, Le Fondation pour les Enfants d'Haiti (FEH) in Port au Prince, Haiti has been working to change the lives of needy children, by replacing poverty and despair with love, health and hope."
CFCH is a Registered Canadian Charitable Organization. Donations to support the work are tax deductible in Canada.
One of the CFCH's guiding principles is that resources will, to the greatest extent possible, be made available directly for the children cared for by FEH. CFCH has very limited administrative overhead, mainly confined to corresponding with donors. Our administrative expenses run about 1% to 2% of total donations. CFCH does not expend any funds for advertising or promotion, nor has it ever done so.
== Esquimalt News June 6, 2001==
"Helping the Planet's Poor
Mark Browne
Esquimalt News
"Sending relief shipments off to third world countries is keeping Dell Marie Wergeland rather busy these days. Wergeland volunteers as the coordinator of the Compassionate Resource Warehouse, located on Devonshire Road. For the last couple of years, Wergeland, and about 30 volunteers, have been collecting everything from school supplies to medical supplies and shipping it all off to the less advantaged of the third World.
"The office in the warehouse is covered with pictures of people in far away places, including a young disabled Haitian girl. The images show the recipients of the assistance made possible by the local humanitarian organiztion.
"Those are just some of the pictures. It really gets you going - you see the need," says Wergeland.
