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Organizations:
Pecan (Pan East
Coast AIDS Network)
HPIC
(Health Partners International
of Canada)
EMAS
(Evangelical Medical Aid Society)
C4L
South Africa (The Desmond Tutu Centre for
Leadership)
Churches:
Hillside Baptist Church
North Lonsdale United Church
St Simons Anglican Church
Health Partners International of Canada (HPIC) is a Canadian
humanitarian organization that sent its first shipment
of
medical aid in 1990.
HPIC
works closely with companies from various sectors of
Canada's health-care industry who generously donate the
most needed, appropriate and highest quality in-date
medical products. They tap into a growing national
network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
humanitarian agencies, medical professionals,
faith-based organizations and churches, community
groups, and transportation service providers to ensure
that vital medicines are expedited quickly to aid
workers for efficient distribution. Thanks to these
dedicated people, HPIC medicines have been distributed
to more than 100 countries.
HPIC also works in tandem with several key Canadian
government departments, such as the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA), which is
committed to providing aid on behalf of all Canadians.
HPIC counts on the financial support of individual
donors, foundations and corporations. HPIC, a registered
charity, offers wonderful leverage for your donation.
Historically, every donated dollar has helped Canadians
deliver at least $10 in medical aid to the most
vulnerable.
HPIC's head office is located in the Pointe-Claire
district of Montreal, Quebec
Evangelical Medical Aid
Society
EMAS (Evangelical
Medical Aid Society) is a personnel-sending
organization, for short-term volunteers. So it has
another vital resource to offer to PECAN members
– Canadian volunteers
and through them, expertise.
EMAS
is a Christian-based organization dedicated to serving
the
needs of medical or dental students and practitioners
by:
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Fostering networking
among like-minded colleagues
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Developing strategies
that help integrated faith and practice
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Acting as a national
voice for the Christian ethic in health care policy
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Providing
infrastructures for spreading God's love to the less
privileged
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Partnering with
faith-based ministries within Canada and
internationally
EMAS (Evangelical
Medical Aid Society) is a personnel-sending
organization, for short-term volunteers.
The PECAN
(Pan-East-Coast AIDS Network) consortium
was recently formed in Southern Africa. Its members are
Christian
organizations from Kwa-Zulu/Natal province, Swaziland,
Mozambique, Malawi, Mpumalanga province and Zimbabwe.
PECAN is about resourcing the church for action -
not just in the sense of tapping resources from Canada,
but in terms of
defining the terms of engagement with
this slow onset disaster that threatens Africa and thus
the whole world.
C4L South Africa (The Desmond Tutu centre for
Leadership)
www.c4l.org
THE DESMOND TUTU
CENTRE FOR LEADERSHIP (C4L for short) is basically a
resource pool. On its campus are various learning
resources including a facility for residential courses,
a resource centre, and resource people resident on
campus.
C4L is also actively involved in resource development –
generating various manuals, videos and other tools for
adult learning. To avoid reinventing the wheel, C4L has
– since its inception – encouraged symbiosis with other
training providers. That is, by providing a venue for
them to deliver their services to the regional market of
southern Africa.
Churches
Our desire is that Hillside Baptist Church would reflect
the sense of community, fellowship, and ministry that
our members experience through their attendance at our
church on Lynn Valley Road. Hillside is not the
building, but the family of wonderful caring people who
meet week after week, and demonstrate God's love through
their actions.
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