Description: ORW Logo 2012Tamarack Homes Ottawa Race Weekend
May 26 & 27, 2012

 

Come join Matthew House Ottawa / Furniture Bank Ottawa for the Tamarack Homes Ottawa Race Weekend!  Walk or run with us – whether a full marathon, or as little as 2k – as we raise money to establish safe, healthy and dignified homes for those transitioning into our community.  We’re expecting to have a lot of fun – and to raise $10,000 too.
At Matthew House Ottawa, it isn’t just about shelter or furniture. It’s about children sleeping on a bed instead of a blanket on the floor.  It’s about families sitting around a table talking and laughing while having a meal instead of holding their plates on their laps.  It’s about helping families and newcomers, young and old, single moms and the working poor make their shelter a home.
There are three ways you can get involved:

  1. Participate as a Runner or Walker!
    • Register online today by visiting the official registration site.
    • Next, let us know that you’ve registered so you can be part of our team! 
    • Start fundraising by setting up a GivingPage at CanadaHelps.org!  Click here for some easy step-by-step instructions.
  2. Donate to a runner or walker!  Clicking on the name of a runner or walker below will bring you to their personal Ottawa Race Weekend GivingPage on CanadaHelps.org:
  3. Volunteer to help out on race day!
    • We need 25 people to volunteer with various tasks.

If you have any questions, please contact Matthew House Ottawa by email at:  info@matthewhouseottawa.org.

What is Matthew House Ottawa?
Matthew House Ottawa is a volunteer-driven charitable organization that helps newly-arrived refugee claimants and others in need to establish a safe, healthy and dignified homes and community within the National Capital Region.  We do this by:

  • Providing shelter, food and refugee settlement assistance to refugee claimants so that they may begin their journey to independence as members in Canadian society; and,
  • Distributing quality used furniture and household goods to refugees and refugee claimants, those transitioning from institutions, half-way houses and shelters, and others in need.

People of all faiths and cultures are warmly welcomed by Matthew House Ottawa.




 

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