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LifeLight members are Christian men and women who have experienced God's love and forgiveness. We are an organized group of committed believers taking the gospel to the world, starting in our own back yard. LifeLighters are united in sharing God's Word in the living languages of each nationality at home and abroad. LifeLighters place Scriptures and Scripture portions in schools, hotels, motels, prisons, universities, hospitals, libraries, and other places where the public will pick up and read God's Word.

Our programs and activities are currently focused in the eastern rural areas of Nepal. The beneficiaries of our programs are ultimately the home communities and villages of the young women and girls we support. Our immediate work is to help girls break the cycle of poverty through improved access to education. Our approach is based on helping a select few motivated individuals who show promise and are enthusiastic about being leaders within their community – that is, we seek to leverage the talents of a few who will inspire action in many.

For 37 years, teams of students from over 350 Canadian high schools have participated in the Canadian Improv Games. Students form teams at the high school level and then compete in regional and provincial festivals for the right to participate in the National Finals. You cannot watch an evening of television or see a drama on stage in Canada that won't feature one or more of our alumni (such as Sandra Oh, a Golden Globe- and Genie Award-winning Canadian actress primarily known for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy, and Tatiana Maslany, star of "Cas & Dylan" and "Orphan Black". Please note, we keep our donors names protected and will not post them publicly.

The Oldman Watershed Council, or OWC, is a community-based, not-for-profit that works with everyone to find practical solutions to environmental challenges that impact us all. People depend on a healthy environment but we also need a healthy economy and we have social and cultural needs too. Everything is connected so we must work together to make trade-offs, solve problems, plan for the future and have the quality of life we want right now. It takes time and effort to work collaboratively but OWC is building a new way of managing our water and land where we all do our part, work together and think long term. We believe it's worth the investment.

Project TEMBO or 'TEMBO'(Tanzania Education and Micro-Business Opportunity) is a registered Canadian charity that provides funding and support to girls and women pursuing educational and small business goals in the Maasai homeland of rural northern Tanzania. TEMBO'S focus is in the villages of Longido and Kimokouwa in northern Tanzania. Our objectives are to: 1. Enable girls to pursue secondary school education by providing financial assistance and materials. 2. Provide funding for vocational training and for teacher training. 3. Operate a Community Library Program open to all residents in Longido District.

The Pregnancy Options & Support Centre is a organization dedicated to showing God's love by meeting the needs of women in crisis by offering support to her and all those involved in the crisis pregnancy. We offer peer-counselling as it pertains to an unplanned pregnancy. Our services include options counselling, pregnancy support, parenting support groups, post-abortion care, post-adoption support,material support, and relationship counselling. We do not recommend or refer for abortion. All services are free of charge to the client with the assurance of confidentiality.

Metropolitan School of Dance, Incorporated: Building character through the art of Dance. MSDI is dedicated to enabling students of every socio-economic background the excitement of personal accomplishment through dance. Our program lends attention to building positive self esteem, self confidence, self worth, determination, discipline, focus and personal accomplishment through arts education. MSDI trains students ages 3 through senior adult (essentially all ages) in ballet, Pointe', African, modern, jazz, tap, hip-hop and drama. Our in-house motto is "EveryBODY" has the right to dance. MSDI does not turn any individual away based on color, creed, ethnicity, size or physique, race or religious affiliation.

Safe Workers of Tomorrow provides workplace health and safety information to students at no cost to the school, anywhere in Manitoba. Our presentations range from a one hour general health and safety presentation, to a full day health and safety practicum. Topics covered in the presentations include worker rights and employer responsibilities, hazard recognition and control, health and safety legislation and WHMIS, and injury reporting and the role of the Workers Compensation Board. Presentations are delivered by energetic and knowledgeable SAFE Workers of Tomorrow staff and volunteers who employ a variety of techniques to engage participants and foster student led discussions. Students receive a workplace safety and health resource book and other useful take away items to help them after the presentation is done.

The Clay Elliott Scholarship Foundation is dedicated to helping youth achieve their goals in education. What makes the foundation unique is that it awards scholarships based on the demonstration of the right attitude. At no time are transcripts used to evaluate a student. The Clay Elliott Scholarship Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides scholarships to students who are currently completing high school and are applying for a full-time under-graduate degree, college diploma or trade school certificate at an accredited Canadian post secondary institution. With the help of the local community, over the past five years, the Foundation has provided over $150,000.00 in scholarships to 78 students who have graduated from schools within Northumberland County. We want to keep giving more, please help.

CityReach Care Society offers a range of programs and activities focused on serving the tangible needs of the community(such as our Food for Families, Club Freedom and Out of School Care programs)as well as providing opportunity for personal growth and development. We realize that our community faces some challenging circumstances around the issue of poverty, however, we believe that the human spirit is tenacious and with the right encouragement and support, families can move beyond poverty into a place of prosperity. The dictionary definition of "prosper" is to render successful, to thrive, to make gain, to grow, to increase, to make steady progress, to flourish-essentially it is the opposite of poverty and we are passionately committed to providing programs and activities that will help families and individuals in our community prosper in all areas of life.