Our objective is to promote and enhance the health, education, social and economic development of children in disadvantaged regions throughout the world.

1. January 2023

2. Our Purpose
Our purpose is to provide financial and other
assistance to registered Canadian charities for
the promotion and enhancement of the health,
education, social and economic development of
needy children

3. Registered Public
Foundation
Established in 2009 by women primarily from
the mineral exploration industry
Non-profit, registered public foundation with
the CRA and authorized to issue tax receipts
for donations

4. Corporate Sponsors

5. Board of Directors
Nancy Curry, Director
Emma Fairhurst, Director
Helen Plischke, Director
Preet Pall, Director
Claudia Losie, Director
Zoe Pratt, Director
Jessica van den Akker,
CFO

6. We are 100%
100% of the net proceeds raised go directly to
the projects
100% of GC4C’s activities are carried out
by volunteers
Almost 100% of the services we need
to run GC4C are donated

7. Corporate Sponsors

8. Criteria for Partners
We carefully select partners that:
– Are registered Canadian charities
– Are not aligned with political, religious
or ideological causes
– Have no or low administration costs
– Confirm that 100% of GC4C’s funding will go directly to
the selected project
– Allow us to collaborate on their projects

9. Corporate Sponsors

10. We Monitor our
Projects
GC4C monitors projects to ensure:
– Cost-effective application of the funds
– Direct and identifiable impact

11. Directors & volunteers visiting the KEEF
library in Kenya funded by GC4C in 2010

12. Double Diamond Sponsor

13. How GC4C Raises
Funds
We raise funds primarily through:
– our Annual Fundraising Event every January and a Silent
Auction
– Corporate sponsors
– Online donations

14. Our Impact
GC4C has raised more than $450,000 and
funded almost 60 projects across the globe
GC4C has impacted the lives of thousands of
children

15. Double Diamond Sponsor
Donated by a Director

16. Projects in
Lower Mainland of BC
Play equipment, books, and toys for child
trauma victims in Burnaby

17. Partnered
with
Cameray
Children &
Family
Services

18. Double Diamond Sponsor

19. Abetavu
A soccer field for 200 children outside of Kampala,
Uganda

20. Diamond Sponsors

21. Our Yukon Project
Healthy, hot lunches and snacks for students at J.V.
Clark school in Mayo, Yukon

22. Yukon Food for Learning

23. Our Kenya Projects
Emasera
Community School
Partnered with
KEEF
New two-room
kitchen serving
nearly 600
students

24. Diamond Sponsor
Donated by Individuals of the Group

25. Kitchen
before...

26. …kitchen after

27. Platinum Sponsors

28. The new kitchen – cooking on a Jiko,
with proper ventilation
The old kitchen – cooking on
rocks with no ventilation
Old kitchen

29. Part of the road
leading to
Emasera School

30. Platinum Sponsors

31. Our Kenya Projects
GC4C has provided education materials such as:
– desks, chairs and benches
– text books, library books and dictionaries
– calculators, computers, photo copier & videos

32. New books for Bondeni library
funded by GC4C

33. Platinum Sponsors

34. Ushirika School, Kenya
Partnered with One Girl Can Society
GC4C funds built a science lab, serving about
650 students in Kibera, a slum of one million
people in Nairobi

35. Ushirika School science lab, Nairobi, Kenya

36. Platinum Sponsors

37. Project in Peru with
Canadian Friends of
ANIQUEM
GC4C provides funds to aid in the transport of
burned children to the ANIQUEM burn clinic in
Peru
Burned children receive free treatment and
rehabilitation at the burn clinic

38. Gold Sponsors

39. Camilo, 8, was
injured as a baby
when he fell into a
tub of hot water.
Juan, 12, was
burned at five-
years-old when a
bottle of kerosene
he was playing
with, exploded.

40. Jackeline, 6, was
adding wood to a
cooking fire when the
pot of boiling water
spilled on her arms.
Jackeline lives three
hour by bus and foot
up the mountain from
Cajamarca, already a
24-hour bus ride to
Lima.

41. Gold Sponsors

42. Bringing books and
literacy to children in
Ethiopia
Partnered with WE Charity
Built reading corners – mini-libraries – in
Ethiopian schools
Children read after class and borrow books for
the weekend

43. Ethiopia
Reading corners for
elementary school
classrooms

44. Gold Sponsors

45. Northern Society for
Domestic Peace
Play therapy books, toys, and storage for a
counselling office in Hazelton, B.C.
Hand-crafted First Nations felt figures
For children victimized by family violence, abuse,
and other trauma in Northern B.C.

46. Northern Society for
Domestic Peace
Trauma
counselling for
children in
Smithers, B.C.

47. Play therapy toys and
storage

48. Gold Sponsors

49. Adopt-a-Village – Laos
Eight water filters installed in three elementary
schools and one secondary school
Filters last approximately 20 years and prevent
diarrhea and other diseases

50. Adopt-a-Village – Laos

51. Gold Sponsors

52. THANK YOU!!!