Funding guidelines can be reviewed at the bottom of the “Donations” page.
Most of the money raised ($13,000) went to three Perth area organizations,
whose websites you can visit by clicking on the list below:
The Perth & District Food Bank
The YAK Youth Centre
Food For Thought School Breakfasts
To visit each website click here: Food Bank YAK Food For Thought
The balance of funding went to two nutrition programs with strong ties to the Perth community.
1. The Lieutenant Governor’s Aboriginal
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In 2005 James Bartleman, the former Lieutenant governor of Ontario and now a Perth resident,
created a small number of literacy camps for aboriginal kids in five isolated Ontario
communities. This has grown to more than forty camps across northern Ontario,
Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia. Administered by Frontier College,
the idea was born out of the despair and tragically high suicide rates
among aboriginal youth in the north. “The camps”, says
Bartleman, “are not just about teaching the joys of
reading, but about mental wellness.”
Click here to learn more about the camps or to watch a video with James Bartleman.
2. The Guatemala Stove Project / Nutrition Program
at the Escuela de los Niños de Sam, Panimaquim, Guatemala
 
This school, located in the highlands of Guatemala, was built recently in memory of
Sam Clarke, a 20 year-old student from Perth whose parents Tom Clarke and
Rita Redner founded the Stove Project. Sam had participated in building
stoves in Guatemala several times alongside other volunteers from Perth.
In 2008 he went off to study at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario.
Tragically, he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle.
Currently kids from Glen Tay Elementary School near Perth
are fundraising to finance a self-sustaining chicken
farm in the village. At last count they had raised
almost all of the $5,000 needed to
begin the project.
 
In the kitchen and in the classroom at Escuela Los Niños de Sam
Click here to read the full story of the school and the Guatemala Stove Project
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