Do Some Good

South Country Co-op long-time supporter of St. John's Presbyterian Church Food Hamper Program

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Thank you South Country Co-op for your continuous support of SEASAR. Consider donating/volunteering for this great organization!

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Thanks to South Country Co-op, Redcliff Library has almost reached its fundraising goal to pay for a new photocopier! Help them reach their goal!

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Way to go Dauphin!

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Dauphin Co-op donated 40 gallons of stain to Fort Dauphin Museum to refurbish the log buildings.
Learn more: https://www.dauphinco-op.crs/sites/dauphin/local/detail/fort-dauphin-museum-refurbish https://dosomegood.ca/post/17287

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Great idea Dauphin Co-op!

Inglis School nurturing student learning in the great outdoors

Thank you Twin Valley Co-op for your ongoing support!

Community Need:

Inglis school strives to provide a rich, varied, meaningful way in which to teach students and prepare them for the world. Also, the school hopes to foster a deeper connection between the School and the broader community. By helping Inglis School build and outdoor classroom, Co-op has helped achieve both of those very important goals. The students will be able to learn, while immersed, the lessons that come with gardening, nature, science, and the environment. Community members will have ample opportunities for involvement be it in the planning and building phase of this project to caring for the gardens, to guest teach/speak on subjects not typically taught in the classroom setting. Inglis School is particularly looking forward to this new adventure nurturing students learning in an interesting new way and integrating the wider community on a cariety of levels.

Local Co-op Support:

Co-op has donated $5000 worth of material to our project. It is this local support and voicing of confidence in our idea that has given us a big lift. Co-op has put new energy in our step as we make strides to complete this wonderful project. Specifically, this donation will make it much easier for us to complete this project where a storage shed (for classroom material and gardening tools will be stored) as well as a covered out door classroom structure is required to be built.

How You Can Help:

This project is still in the very early stages and so, much help is still required such as building the outdoor classroom, planting and tending the vegetable garden, establishing a fruit orchard and shelter belts etc. Every little bit of assistance is appreciated and valued. Please contact Inglis School for more information about how you can help or just to share your thoughts and ideas. Thank you!
http://ing.pwsd.ca
inglis@pwsd.ca
Call (204) 842-2806

Keeping virtual and window visits possible during pandemic

Thank you to Peninsula Co-op for their ongoing support.

Community Need:

In the last few months, the public health crisis has changed dramatically, upending our community emotionally, medically, logistically and financially.
The Saanich Peninsula Hospital is truly on the front lines of delivery services at this critical time, working to ensure that our patients receive both the material and emotional support they need. These challenging times remind us how much it means to our health care workers that supporters like Peninsula Co-op are with them. The health and safety of our hospital staff, patients and community is our highest priority.
Co-op's support has provided materials and equipment to help front-line healthcare workers while they provide safe, high-quality care to our patients and community.

Local Co-op Support:

Peninsula Co-op's support is a gift that keeps giving. Thanks to Co-op we were able to support the ever-changing needs in our hospital and community healthcare. There was no budget to cover a pandemic, and Peninsula Co-op's help made a significant difference!
Thank you for being part of this community. Thank you for believing in the mission of the Saanich Peninsula Hospital & Healthcare Foundation, and in the work that is being done by all our healthcare workers that we have a chance to support.
In times of uncertainty such as this, we see the best of our community emerge. Your support provides peace of mind. It provides materials or equipment to help front-line healthcare workers while they provide safe, high-quality care to our patients . You truly exemplify what it means to be community heroes.
One of the most biggest impact Co-op's support has made possible is virtual or window visits!
"Thanks to your generosity, the Long-Term Care Unit is managing to navigate through this rapidly changing “New World Order”. We have never encountered anything like this in our lifetime, but thanks to you, we have answered every challenge sent our way. From tents for change rooms to tablets/cell phones for socialization and from extra mobile TVs for small group encounters to PPEs for staff safety.
With your support, we have maintained LTC‘s Motto “No Virus Welcome Here!”
Shirley Finnigan - CNL, Long-Term Care, SPH

How You Can Help:

We now face the challenging task of looking forward at the ever growing wait list of patients which have had to face the sad tale of cancellation of their much needed surgery. These surgeries will have new safety protocols are in place and we will need to help with specialized equipment.

No clinician will ever call himself or herself a hero. They see this as their duty and their calling. Fears don’t stop them from showing up, day after day, to care for patients. And it’s our turn now, more than ever, to show up and support our heroes.

We had no budget to cover this pandemic so we created the Emergency Response Fund. Our goal is $250,000.
If you have not yet, please send a gift to help. Your gift today will provide immediate and essential support especially if there is a second wave of covid-19.

Your caring gift will help provide:
• Tools and support for our healthcare workers
• Housing for clinicians in quarantine
• Increasing Telehealth capabilities
• iPads to help patients stay connected to loved ones
• Refurbishing existing space to meet covid-19 regulation
• New surgical equipment to support covid-19 requirements

Please help the patients, families and healthcare workers and give now. Donate online at sphf.ca or call Brenda at 250-889-6965 and help us reach our goal

Minnedosa and Area Food Bank continues to supply food hampers to those in need

Thanks to Heritage Co-op for your ongoing support!

Community Need:

As a result of the support from our Co-op, Minnedosa and Area Food bank has been able to increase items provided in food hampers to our clients, provide milk coupons to families and provide kid friendly breakfast packages to children for weekends when school is out.

Local Co-op Support:

The support we have received from the Co-op has come in a variety of forms. The Bags to Riches program, the Fuel Good Day proceeds, Matching dollar to dollar donations from shoppers, having ready made Hunger bags available in $10, $15 and $20 denominations for shoppers are able to grab the prepacked bags to donate. Co-op staff has also worked with us to ensure contents of the bags meet our hamper needs. Co-op also provides us with a discount on regular priced items.

How You Can Help:

We are very fortunate that our current levels of community support our sufficient that we remain able to operate. Volunteers are always welcome as we continue with our current level of service and look at ways in which we can improve this important community service!