Charities

DDGM’S CHARITIES 2024-2025


Supporting our Communities Together

 

Project No. 2491
 
 
Helping Individuals & Families Heal and Grow
 
 
The Canadian Mental Health Association says one in five Canadians suffer from mental illness, the leading cause of disability. With this in mind and through our planned District events, let us support addictions and mental health helping men and women aged 16 and older, as well as their families.
Caritas, a leading Therapeutic Community located in York Region, provides a proven, long-term, holistic approach to treating addiction and mental health concurrent disorders – encompassing one’s physical, mental, spiritual, social, emotional, and educational needs – within a highly structured and supportive community.
 
Caritas School of Life has earned an impeccable reputation within the addiction and mental health sector, and by all those it has treated, supported, and assisted. To date, Caritas School of Life has provided treatment and support services to 18,000people, and 36,000 family members, for a total of over 50,000 lives!
 
For more information, visit About – Caritas School of Life
 
To donate visit www.canadahelps.org, select “Caritas,” and enter Project No. 2491 in the “send message” box. The Masonic Foundation of Ontario will top up the total donation amount by 25%.
 
 
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Project No. 2500

The Last Post Fund’s mission is to ensure that no Veteran is denied a dignified funeral and burial, as well as a military gravestone, due to insufficient funds at the time of death.
 

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 HONOUR AND PROTECT IN DEATH SEEMS BUT A SMALL RETURN TO THOSE WHO HAVE PROTECTED THEIR COUNTRY IN LIFE.” ARTHUR HAIR, FOUNDER
 

To donate visit www.canadahelps.org, select “Masonic Foundation of Ontario,” and enter Project No. 2500 in the “send message” box. The Masonic Foundation of Ontario will top up the total donation amount by 25%.

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