Citizens Care Giving Circle Foundation
Poverty exists right here, in your own backyard.
In 2008 British Columbia had the highest poverty rate (16.1%) and highest child poverty rate (21.9%) of all the provinces in Canada for the 5th year in a row!
Help us make a change. We are a unique organization!
See why are we so different! There is no other charity like this!
This is how it works.
- Anyone living below the poverty line can apply to Citizens care for assistance.
- Once approved, their request for assistance is posted on the secure, member's only section of our website.
- Our members have access to their profiles and can offer assistance by funding all or part of their request.
- Once a request for assistance has been 100% funded Citizens care will fulfill their request.
We are a group that was created to make a difference in our community by pooling our funds, time and talents in a giving way.
This is a personal, one to one, way of making a charitable contribution.
We are Micro Givers! By making a small contribution you can help someone in need.
You also have the ability to choose who you give your contribution to!
This is all done locally, right in your neighbourhood. You get to see the results firsthand.
We are DIFFERENT. This is a more personal way of giving!
but don’t know where to start! My friend needs help, but I don’t know where to find someone that can help her?
We want to do some good in our community,
I am sure you remember that wonderful feeling you get when you do some good and selflessly help another person.
I was in the grocery store, lined up at the cashier to pay for my groceries and there was a young woman with two small children ahead of me paying for her purchases. The cashier said "that will be $82.25 please". A look of panic came across the woman's face and then a tear rolled down her cheek. She said to the cashier "I'm sorry, I am a little short, can I return a few items" and she proceeded to pick items from her groceries to return. I noticed she was returning food items, but not the food items meant for the children. I asked the young woman how much she was short and she said "about $20" in a still quivering voice. I told her to keep her groceries and handed the cashier a $20 bill. The young woman's mouth dropped open and she just hugged me! I never felt so good.
I know the feeling of that young woman far too well, its as if you were writing about my experience. It is humbling and frighting to be a struggling single parent, desperately trying to provide for your children. These random acts of kindness are what have helped me get through tough times and have shown me that I am not alone, giving me the strength to keep fighting.
We all need help sometimes as we struggle through hardships in life. I believe these helping hands will grow; as you lead by example others will follow.
You have planted a beautiful seed. Cheers to you all for your loving kindness.
A single mom.
This was just a random happening, I just was in the right place at the right time and was able to help. But there are lots of other people who may find themselves in a situation like that but there is no knight in shinning armour that shows up to rescue them in their time of need.
That's what Citizens Care is all about! Finding people in our community that are at a point in their life when they could use a helping hand but don't know where to go.
Then matching them up with all you knights in shining armour that can lend that helping hand. Through the power of the internet and our website you can have a personal connection with helping someone, right here in your neighbourhood, just as I did for that woman in the grocery store.
Join Citizens Care on our website at Citizens-Care.org! Look through our listing of those who need some help and give. There is no better feeling on earth.
Our members also refer people who may require financial support.
Our group meetup events are varied unique FUNdraising activities.
Examples of direct individual support in your community could be …
-Funding for an individual/group that sees a need for a support group in their community to get it started
-A child that needs dental work, a single mom that can’t afford it
-A security deposit for a family that would allow them to obtain subsidized housing
-Emergency medical supplies for a homeless shelter that does not have the budget to resupply
- Help for a battered woman’s shelter
-Provide a ride for a senior woman who cannot afford the daily transportation costs to visit her husband in the hospital
Maybe you have heard or know of someone in need. Now you can do something, suggest that our group make a grant and follow it thru to actually delivering the funds to the person/group in need!
