My Story…
I am raising money through the Banff Marathon this year for sexual and domestic abuse. While Celebrating Calgarys 60th anniversary! I will be running 60KM at the Calgary Marathon backwards. To help me train, for every ten dollars raised BEFORE the event I will run a Kilometer backwards! I had to use both "my-storys" (banff and calgary) as it was too long. See my story on the Banff link. Running is about giving back. I know I can't take back what may have happened to somebody. But I hope it helps and they find courage to be free again. This is for a friend close to me, who has asked me to do something like this for many years. ❤️
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Help Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence
For more than a century, YW has kept its doors open to women. We understand what women need, what their families need and our exceptionally skilled team ensures hundreds of thousands of women and their families have the opportunity, the ability and the resources they need to thrive.
A $25.00 donation can provide a full day of warm meals for a woman staying in our Emergency Shelter. When a women’s basic needs are met during a time of crisis, she can focus on healing and the next steps for wellness.
A $50.00 Donation can go towards purchasing transit tickets for YW clients who need to purchase groceries, attend job interviews, visit family or other important errands. Providing vulnerable women with safe transportation gives a much-needed sense of independence.
An $80.00 donation goes towards families arriving at our domestic violence shelter (they often arrive with nothing – sometimes they are even without shoes). This gift helps provide women and their children with new indoor shoes or boots, depending on their needs, when they arrive at our domestic violence shelter.
A $100 donation can buy a woman and her children a week’s worth of delivered groceries and essential items while she is staying in YW’s transitional housing or domestic violence shelter. Women are empowered when they have the freedom to purchase what they need, when they need it.
A $200 donation can provide women and children a room at the shelter with all the their essentials. This gift can provide personal care items such as soap, bedding and other necessities for them to keep! Your gift will help provide a comfortable place to call home, which is instrumental in healing.
Choose your own amount ($5 and up): Every gift supports YW’s focus on providing sustainable, uninterrupted access to programs and services necessary for women and families to thrive.
WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP
The success of the women and families supported by YW are your successes too. We cannot do this alone; your support helps us provide vulnerable women with flexible, personalized support to help them and their families move forward with dignity in times of crisis.
We invite you to stand with us in support of this meaningful cause. Your generous contribution will empower YW Calgary to offer these women a fresh beginning.
Recent donors
| Donation date | Donor name | Donation amount |
|---|---|---|
| May 10 | Clinton Prevost | $107.72 |
| May 06 | Jason Stone | $64.99 |
| May 04 | Mike Kawchuk | $54.31 |
| May 03 | Troy's No Frills 3448 | $267.96 |
| Nov 26 | Anonymous | Undisclosed amount |
