By Jenna Cocullo, Local Journalism Initiative
The South Kent Wind Community Fund and the Chatham-Kent Community Foundation (CKCF) are replacing its spring grants to create the COVID-19 Relief Fund.
A total of $150,000 was donated to eleven charitable organizations in Chatham-Kent last week.
The CKCF COVID-19 Relief Fund will be used to continue access to mental health services, expand on-line learning, provide transportation, shelter and food for those who are most vulnerable.
“This generous contribution will support the real heroes of this crisis, our frontline healthcare workers by helping to provide them with the necessary equipment and supplies. Donations like this truly underscore how we are all in this together,” said Mary Lou Crowley, president & CEO of Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, on behalf of the foundation which received funding.
The total list of recipients are:
- Blenheim Youth Centre;
- Camp Oochigeas & Camp Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre;
- Chatham Kent Women’s Centre;
- Chatham Outreach For Hunger;
- Chatham-Kent Community Health Centres;
- Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation;
- Chatham-Kent Hospice Foundation;
- Children’s Treatment Centre Foundation of Chatham-Kent;
- Junior Achievement of SW Ontario;
- Mental Health Network of Chatham-Kent and
- The Kidney Foundation of Canada.
