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Subject: Mitzvah Club helps the underdogs
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All Mitzvah Club helps the underdogs
Other efforts benefit eye clinic, burn centre, Children's Hospital
By SUSAN SCHWARTZ, The GazetteJanuary 4, 2010 4:06 AM
The Mitzvah Club, an initiative of the West Island Jewish Community
Centre, is made up of Grade 6 to 9 students who meet weekly to brainstorm
about how to plan a mitzvah - a good deed - or a fundraiser to help those in
need, and then go out and make it happen.
The club's first project was a fundraiser for the Underdog Club, a
non-profit Westmount organization with a mandate to find homes for
hard-to-place dogs, to help them find a new chance at a good life even if
they're ugly or older, or have health or personality issues.
The young people baked dog biscuits and created and assembled a dog-treat
recipe book - and on a sunny Sunday afternoon in late fall, sold enough of
both to raise $433.62 for the Underdog Club.
Viki Zerdok, co-ordinator of children and teen services at the West Island
JCC, runs the program with animator Kaycie Waldman.
The Freedom from Poverty Foundation held its 12th annual fundraising dinner
recently at Le Châteaubriand - and raised more than $20,000 toward a
pediatric eye clinic in India to help prevent childhood blindness.
More than 230 guests enjoyed Indian cuisine catered by Iqbal and Bombay
Palace. The evening, which included a silent auction, featured a live video
conference with V.K. Raju, president of the Eye Foundation of America, who
announced the co-operation of the two foundations in setting up a pediatric
eye clinic in Ayodhya-Faizabad.
The Philippine Centre Foundation of Greater Montreal donated $10,000
recently to the Best Care for Children Campaign in support of the
construction of the new Montreal Children's Hospital at the Glen Campus of
the McGill University Health Centre.
"We are very pleased to be contributing to this important project for our
community, and for all Montrealers," said Salvé Hernandez Desprez, president
of the foundation.
Members of Montreal's Filipino community gathered last month to present the
cheque to the campaign and also to give scholarships to 13 youngsters of
Filipino descent who excelled in their studies - and who helped raise funds
for the new children's hospital within the community.
Grade 4 students at Hebrew Foundation School, a private Jewish day school in
Dollard des Ormeaux, collected 266 pairs of used eyeglasses for those in
need as part of a school project called Seeing Is Believing.
In conjunction with a community organization called OneSight, the eyeglasses
will be cleaned, repaired and distributed to children in need across North
America.
As part of their education, the students have been learning about such
issues as community life and helping those in need.
"We feel that it is very important to show other people that we care and
that we are willing to help," said Ellen Shapiro, the teacher leading the
student initiative
"This is part and parcel of our Jewish education - to be attuned to the
needs of others, to support organizations that help make this world a kinder
and better place," said Rabbi Achiya Delouya, the school principal.
OneSight, a Luxottica Group Foundation, is a non-profit organization in the
United States dedicated to improving vision for those in need worldwide
through outreach, research and education. For more information:
www.onesight.org
Over the past decade, the Quebec Firefighters Foundation has donated a total
of $1.3 million to the Centre des grands brûlés du Centre Hospitalier de
l'Université de Montréal, the burn centre, to support care and research to
improve treatment and quality of life for serious burn victims.
Last month, the CHUM foundation unveiled a plaque to be installed at the
burn centre to mark that contribution.
"Burns can be deadly, and the healing process can require very painful
treatment, said Alexis Armour, a researcher and burn-care plastic-surgery
specialist at the CHUM and director of the Centre d'expertise pour les
personnes victimes de brûlures graves de l'ouest du Québec.
"It is largely thanks to the donations and ongoing support of the
Firefighters Foundation that the Centre has been able to continue our
primary and clinical research, and achieve our ambitious goals for our
patients."
About 150 people are admitted every year to the CHUM burn centre which, as
the designated centre for western Quebec, serves 65 per of the province's
population.
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