Doin' Good

Our support in 2015 for War Child went to two areas: 

Refugees from the South Sudan in Uganda:  Within the South Sudanese refugee settlements in Uganda, overcrowding, the disproportionate number of women and children, ethnic tensions and inadequate services have combined to create the pre-conditions for violence against women and children. In response, War Child implemented programming in eleven settlements in Adjumani (a district in northern Uganda), providing urgent services to the most vulnerable. These programs focused on sexual and gender based violence prevention and legal protection. War Child is expanding its programs there to three new districts.

Syrian Refugee Crisis:  War Child is one of many providing relief services to refugees arising out of the nightmare in and spilling out of Syria. War Child is in Jordan delivering services with a focus on child protection, education and youth development. It plans to set up similar programs in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. 

This front line housing organization develops and provides affordable, stable housing and support services to break the cycle of homelessness for people with the fewest housing options. Homes First owns and/or manages sixteen housing projects around the City of Toronto that facilitate the difficult transition from the street to temporary shelter to permanent accommodation, including overnight shelter, transitional housing, shared accommodation and independent living opportunities.

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The Stop Community Food Centre runs a range of programs including community dining, kitchens and gardens, nutrition and support for pregnant women and a food bank. They focus on the ways that food can bring people together to break down social isolation and improve their quality of life. Its programs primarily serve the catchment area north of Bloor, east of Runnymede, south of St. Clair Avenue West, and west of Dovercourt.

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The Storefront is located in the Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park area of Scarborough, which is home to the largest concentration of social housing in Ontario. The Storefront provides a location for a wide range of social services and programs to operate under one roof, giving area residents access to the services that they need in one location.

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This comprehensive program, run by Woodgreen Community Services, provides single mothers and their children with housing, daycare, job training, and job placement. 

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This program provides breakfasts and dinners to the homeless. Lawyers, judges, legal staff and friends cook and serve the food at Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto.

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A non-profit voluntary organization that promotes international development and social justice. It supports community-based programs in highly impoverished communities that emphasize adult literacy and non-formal education for both children and adults through a series of CIDA co-sponsored programs, primarily in India.

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Peacebuilders focuses on conflict prevention and resolution. It teaches peacebuilding processes and skills to local leaders so they can build community values and principles that cross cultures, religions and the globe.

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The AIDWYC Foundation (operating as the Innocence Canada foundation) is a charitable organization established and incorporated in July 2010. The Innocence Canada Foundation operates as the main fundraising organization for Innocence Canada and works to support the following charitable objects:

Providing legal services to low income persons in Canada for the purposes of establishing that a wrongful conviction has occurred and exonerating that wrongly convicted person

• Raising public awareness of the criminal law and the judicial process
• Providing financial assistance to low-income wrongly convicted clients for the necessities of life
• Supporting educational initiatives that help to address the causes of wrongful convictions

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Every year our staff runs an event to raise money for Second Harvest’s Lunch Money Day. In March 2017, PRRR hosted a month-long fundraising initiative with various events involving lawyers and staff members.  This year's cook-off included a creative and delicious array of sweets.  The collaborative effort raised enough money to provide some 9,190 meals.

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In the Spring of 2016, several firm members took to the streets of downtown Toronto to partake in the Heart & Stroke's Big Bike Challenge.  Pledges raised by each participant helped fund research that is desperately needed to develop life-saving treatments that bring hope to heart disease and stroke patients.

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