What started as a birthday celebration achieves its own 10th birthday this year: Canadian knitting charity the Warm Hands Network I asked my friend Rae — my closest Canadian friend — to describe her motherland in three words. Her reply: “Peace-keepers, diverse, and welcoming.” Few people exemplify this description better than the founders of the…
Today I’d like to tell you about a charity that’s helping refugees through their country’s armed forces: Izzy Dolls for Children in Crisis Zones. This is a Canada-based charity, so if you’re Canadian and long to help with the refugee crisis, this is a wonderful opportunity for you!
If so, Casting Off the Cold could be the Canadian knitting charity you need in your life! Sally Karamath, born and raised in Trinidad, said she remembered her mother offering food to homeless people when she was a young girl. From the Casting Off the Cold blog: I could not understand why she would do…
The good folks of Street Knit do what knitters do best: share their talents and dedication with people in need. Every year in Toronto, hundreds of people freeze to death in the harsh Canadian winters because they have nowhere to go. As the Street Knit website says, they can’t knit shelters — but they can…
When it comes to knitting for charity in Canada, many Canadians have expressed frustration with the limited number of specifically Canadian knitting charities. It seems like there are thousands of ways to knit for charity around the world, but only a handful proudly call themselves Canuck. Don’t let that stop you, though: you can still…
If you’re a Canadian who loves to knit or crochet and want to help folks in need, Blankets for Canada would love your assistance “I have a reason to live as long as someone still needs me.” This powerful statement is one that Blankets of Canada founder Nancy Panting says her organization has heard again…
