When families learn their child is seriously ill and must be hospitalized, life as they know it changes overnight. Families embark on what is an often unexpected and difficult journey full of uncertainty, worry, fear and hope.
65% of Canadians live outside of a city with a children’s hospital. When a child gets sick, most Canadian families must travel far from home for medical treatment. They are forced to leave their homes, jobs, and community, often causing significant emotional and financial stress.
RMHC Toronto encompasses a House for 81 families in downtown Toronto and seven Family Rooms in hospitals across the Greater Toronto Area and in Sudbury.
The families we serve come from throughout Ontario, across Canada, and around the world.
When the unimaginable happens, RMHC Toronto is there to help keep families together and close to their seriously ill child in hospital.
Project No. 2500
Its primary mandate is to deliver the Veterans Affairs Canada Funeral and Burial Program which provides funeral, burial and grave marking benefits for eligible Canadian and Allied Veterans. The Unmarked Grave Program provides military markers for unmarked Veterans’ graves. In March 2019, the Indigenous Veterans Initiative was launched in an effort to commemorate and honour the memory of over 18,000 Indigenous Veterans, many of whom are thought to lie in unmarked graves.
The Last Post Fund owns and manages its own military cemetery, the Last Post Fund National Field of Honour, as well as supporting and promoting other initiatives designed to honour the memory of Canadian and Allied Veterans. A national non-profit organization, the Last Post Fund’s National office is located in Montreal, supporting the Provincial Boards across the country.
The Last Post Fund is supported financially by Veterans Affairs Canada and by private donations.
To donate visit www.canadahelps.org, select “Masonic Foundation of Ontario,” and enter Project No. 2500 or 2545 in the “send message” box. The Masonic Foundation of Ontario will top up the total donation amount by 33%.
