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Egale.ca is an amazing group you need to learn about! With November being Transgender Awareness Month, it’s a no-brainer that Egale Canada Human Rights Trust should be our group of the month! Egale is Canada’s only national charity promoting LGBT rights through research, education, and community engagement. Watch the video below to hear what Erika has to say about Egale.ca! And make sure to share the video with your friends and family so that they,

With November being Transgender Awareness Month, it’s a no-brainer that Egale Canada Human Rights Trust should be our group of the month! Egale is Canada’s only national charity promoting LGBT rights through research, education, and community engagement. Founded in 1995, Egale’s vision is a world wherein every person can reach their full potential, free of bias and regardless of their sexual or gender identity. To this end, they have spearheaded and participated in numerous education

Water is the source of all life. Our bodies are composed of 70% water. So why do 1 in 10 people in the world (over 600 million people) not have access to clean and safe water, and 1 in 3 people globally (2.4 billion) not have access to a working toilet? Water.org recognizes the importance of these issues and is doing tremendous work to help, and that’s why they are September’s Group of the Month.

Connecting Children, One Laptop At A Time Think about all of the ways that you’re connected to the world – your smartphone, your tablet, your laptop or desktop computer, your television. Think about the ways that those devices give you a broader understanding of the world around you, and the ways you use them to educate yourself and fulfill the social aspect of your lives. Now imagine that you didn’t have any of that. Could

The Global Fund for Women “Women’s rights are human rights.” This famous quote comes from Hilary Clinton from her United Nations conference back in 1995. Yet nearly 20 years later, women all around the world are still denied these fundamental rights. Here at ContactsforLess.ca, we support gender equality and believe all human beings on this planet deserve the same fundamental rights. Global Funds for Women is our group of the month and here are a

The Earth Island Institute is one of the coolest non-profit organisations in the world! It provides individual projects with the freedom to develop new initiatives, gives them new ideas and the tools to create them with. Since their founding, in 1982 by legendary environmentalist David R. Brower, they have provided fiscal sponsorship to more than 100 projects around the globe, making our world greener and better, one project at a time. Watch the video below in which