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    Poverty Alleviation Programs

    ,As a grassroots, registered charity, the Tendaji Charitable Foundation has been working diligently through its programs to support marginalized people in need. To date, over 125 people have been helped through it Poverty Alleviation Programs: the Back to School and Winter Clothing Programs.

     

    In Canada, the people who the Foundation has helped includes: people who are homeless (women, children and youth), precariously housed people, and those who are marginalized. We know that due to the affordability crisis, many people in our community are suffering. The Foundation has provided help in Toronto, Ontario and Abbotsford, British Columbia. The Tendaji Charitable Foundation is doing its part to alleviate poverty and to help members of the community.

     

    Internationally, the Foundation has provided back to school support which includes backpacks and school supplies in order to support children and youth on their educational journey in Guyana. We are working to expand our programs in Canada and in the developing world.

     

    In 2022, the Tendaji Charitable Foundation supported the following organizations through its Poverty Alleviation programs:

     

    The Yonge Street Mission

    The Scott Mission

    Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre

    Sara for Women

     

    Back-to-School Program 2023

    Our 2023 Back to School Program provided backpacks and school supplies to over 100 children in Toronto, ON and Abbottsford, BC. Thank you to our Founder, Deborah Austin and Board Members Michelle Taenzer, Stacey Forde, Joycelyn Austin and volunteers who helped to pack the over 100 backpacks full of school supplies and deliver the backpacks with school supplies to the recipients and organizations. The Tendaji Charitable Foundation was pleased to receive a wonderful thank you letter from the staff at the Revival Tabernacle one of the recipient organizations. Sara for Women in Abbotsford. BC also posted a thank you on their social media for the donations of backpacks and school supplies.

    Back to School Program 2024

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     Our 2024 Back to School Program provided backpacks and school supplies to over 100 children and yoiuth in Toronto, Ontario. Our Founder, Board Members and volunteers helped to pack the over 100 backpacks full of school supplies and deliver the backpacks with school supplies to the recipient organizations. This year the recipient organizations were the Christie Refugee Welcome Centre and the Fontbonne Ministries.

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