Ottawa

All funds from this event will support The Salvation Army’s Emergency and Disaster Services program in Ottawa as well as sending more children in need to Salvation Army summer camps. Your support makes a great impact! When you give to The Salvation Army, you are giving to your community. The assistance we provide is unconditional and available to all and would not be possible without the support of our community and friends like you.

Thanks again to our 2018 sponsors Monat Global Canada, Country 101.1 FM, Ottawa Champions Baseball, Classic Care Pharmacy and Emond Harden Law.

We look forward to seeing you this August swinging clubs in support of The Salvation Army and helping people in need. 

For more information please contact:

Shauna Quinn
Marketing & Events Coordinator
shauna_quinn@can.salvationarmy.org
613-233-8428 ext. 221.

Today, approximately three million Canadians, or one in 10 people, live in poverty. The Salvation Army recognizes that poverty is a critical issue, and that everyone has the right to access basic necessities such as nutritious food, health care, education and economic opportunity.

The effects of poverty are quite serious and deserve our attention:

• It requires people to make painful choices between necessities, such as paying the rent or feeding their kids, going to the dentist or buying a monthly bus pass.
• It often leads to hunger or unhealthy eating, poor health, interrupted schooling, homelessness or poor quality housing, substance abuse, crime, violence and despair.
• Those who experience poverty have a shorter lifespan, and often suffer physically and emotionally.
• Those who live in poverty often require higher than average use of publicly funded programs like welfare, hospitals, police and correctional services which increases taxes.

More than 1.8 million people receive assistance from The Salvation Army each year across the country – many among the nation’s poor. This includes:

• The distribution of more than 2.8 million meals
• The provision of 6,340 shelter beds each night for vulnerable men, women and families, making up one-quarter of all shelter beds in Canada.
• Practical assistance to more than one million people with food or clothing.

With your support, dignity for all is possible.