Our Community Involvement

Locally…

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 like the Snowsuit Fund of Ottawa and St. Mary’s Home, and we raised $67,306 for the United Way of Ottawa.

Commencing in 2015, we are especially proud of our continuing fundraising efforts to support the work of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.

To-date, Global Child Care Services has raised $64,768 for the CHEO Foundation.

Our Fundraising Campaigns for the CHEO Foundation: 

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)

and not so locally…

Our compassion for children and families spills beyond the borders of the Ottawa area, and 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.

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 went rapidly and directly into building the walls and roof and 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 for other identified needs going forward into the future.