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Thank you to everyone who came out to this year’s sold out Breakfast on the Rideau. Your support is incredibly important to the homeless youth in our city. Guest speaker Frank O’Dea spoke about living on the street as a youth, addicted to alcohol and … Continue readingBreakfast on the Rideau 2019
A new school year is upon us, and students are coming back in to the John Bosco Achievement Centre. The credits they will be striving for are the same as in previous years, and the ultimate goal of graduation from high school or obtaining a … Continue readingWelcome Bethany to the John Bosco Achievement Centre!
The room in Gloucester High School is full of new Canadians. It’s an English as a second language class populated by immigrants and refugees. Many come from countries where they have experienced hardships that most of us couldn’t imagine. Thankfully, their Educational Assistant (EA), Corey … Continue readingCory Illingworth: Success Story
“Elly is small…she’s funny…and she’s maybe the nicest person ever.” Larissa is a little melancholy, as she is about to have a birthday that will make her too old to access the Operation Come Home drop-in. While she likes being able to come in for … Continue readingVolunteer Week spotlight: Elly Saidi, Artistic Dynamo
We are just over two weeks away from the launch of our 16th Reality Campaign, and we want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has grown the event and made it a success over the years. We started in 2003, with a small, … Continue readingThe Reality Campaign is just around the corner!
Happy Black Friday, everyone! It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks here at Operation Come Home, as we prepare for the holidays. Up next – Cyber Monday where people shop online, and Giving Tuesday where people make donations to their favourite charities! Here are … Continue readingOCH blog – beers, books, and how to help on Giving Tuesday
First, some thanks are in order! Thank you to everyone who has donated items to our supplies cupboard – here Chelsea, our newest volunteer, is sorting out the toiletries, foods, and appliances in our cupboard which fills up more every day as the Christmas season … Continue readingOCH Blog – A whole lot of thanks, and why the Oz Kafe is remarkable
Every year, offices and businesses around the world build team spirit and enhance community involvement by doing company-wide fundraisers for various charities. We think this is wonderful, and we thought we would write a friendly guide that we thought would be helpful. So here goes! … Continue readingThe Operation Come Home 2018 donation and fundraising guide
We begin by reminding you of an informative and exciting event coming up Thursday – our Charitable Giving Seminar, with the experts at SunLife, happening Thursday, October 25th, at 4:00 at Operation Come Home in our upstairs employment program area. (150 Gloucester.) There you will … Continue readingOCH blog – Beer Calendars, blackout poetry, and we continue to be bad at trivia
It is officially Trivia Season, as OCH is involved with two big upcoming trivia events! So here’s what you’re going to be doing in October: On Saturday the 13th, you’ll be joining us at the IODE Walter Baker chapter’s Smarty Pants Trivia Night! 7:00 at … Continue readingOCH Blog: Thanksgiving, art, and Trivia Season is upon us!
