Before we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the holidays, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made this year’s Back to School & Basics Campaign a success!  With your support, we were able to send 70 children back to the classroom with new backpacks and school supplies and were able to provide basic necessities like toiletries, towels, and linens to the women at our shelter.

Thank you to our major in-kind donors of back to school items: eHealth Ontario, the Region of Peel, Sparks Productions, APP Canada, and the Sexual Assault Survivors Support Line @ York University.  You donations of brand new pencils, paper, binders, notebooks, crayons, markers, lunch bags and backpacks gave the children at Nellie’s the confidence and capacity to return to school with everything they need. Your support was also appreciated by the 5 women at our shelter who returned to school this fall to being or upgrade their post-secondary education.

Zainab [right] from SASSL at York delivers items donated by York Students.

Thank you as well to those donors who supported us financially.  Your contributions ensure that the women at our shelter are provided with the basic necessities they need as soon as they arrive at our door. We can’t say this enough – none of this would be possible without your support.  THANK YOU to every single individual who donated in-kind and financially to our Back to School & Basics Campaign.  You have helped the children and women at Nellie’s begin the school year on the right track – the track to success!