Charity
Highlighting HERA Mission, One of Amazing People’s Target Charities
In a tiny one room home in a dusty slum in Kisumu, Kenya, Anyango Akama anxiously waits for a vehicle to arrive. It carries two treasured Canadian visitors, Devlin and Peggy Taillon, the boy she gave birth to seven years earlier and the woman who adopted him. It was January 2007 when Peggy first came…
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Ottawa Media Group’s Amazing People Partners with the Michaëlle Jean Foundation to Support Disadvantaged Youth
Ottawa Media Group’s (OMG) philanthropic arm, Amazing People, is pleased to announce that to mark Canada 150, it is joining with the foundation co-founded by former Governor General Michaëlle Jean and her husband Jean-Daniel Lafond to raise money to empower Canadian youth to use arts to improve their lives and revitalize their communities. A series…
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Ottawa fundraising group, Amazing People, hosted first of three major events to help children in need
Tara Shannon, songwriter/recording artist and the Amazing People Creative Director, will dedicate her December 2nd “Amazing People Holiday Concert” to helping children in Canada, Nicaragua and Kenya. Tara’s latest single, Butterfly Child, raised money to help Jonathan Pitre and her upcoming album will assist the Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition. The dedicated philanthropist will donate concert proceeds…
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2016 SchoolBOX Build
The Amazing People Youth Scholarship offers youth in the Ottawa area who have demonstrated extensive community involvement with the opportunity to expand their reach globally. Through the scholarship, selected individuals get to travel to another country and help build classrooms with our supported charity, SchoolBOX. Just this year, volunteers have traveled with SchoolBOX to do…
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