Bob Rae, MP

Toronto Christian Resource Centre: Volunteers Needed at 40 Oaks

Volunteers Needed at 40 Oaks

Our volunteers tell us it is a life changing experience being able to lend a hand and offer a smile while making a difference!

The CRC needs volunteers Monday to Friday. The daily and seamless operation of our programs is dependent on the valuable time that volunteers can share with us.

You can make a difference. We need you to join our team!

Our daily Community Meal Program (which serves breakfast and lunch) needs volunteers for meal tray preparation, plating of food, serving, dishwashing, meal room organization, and conversation.

If you can participate one day a week or a few times a month, that will help us greatly. Times can vary, starting at 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., for 2 to 3 hours or more or after lunch to help with kitchen clean-up. More hands make lighter work!

Our Community Clothing Program needs volunteers to assist participants from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., during their pre-arranged appointments, to select clothing. Sorting and organizing new clothing donations is also part of this volunteer role.

Our Community Knitting Club, on Wednesdays 1-3 p.m., is looking for volunteers who can assist in teaching knitting and crocheting to participants.

Consider inviting a friend to come with you. It’s even more fun that way.

We also have corporations and businesses signing up to serve as a team building exercise and as an opportunity for their employees to give back. Speak to your employer about your company getting involved.

There will be opportunities in other programs in the future and we will keep you posted on those.

Volunteer at CRC at 40 Oaks, contribute to the Regent Park community, and be surprised at how great you will feel having done so!

Email volunteers@tcrc.ca or call our Volunteer Coordinator at 416-363-4234 Ext. 237

Some Upcoming Events in our Community

Here are a couple of events and meetings taking place in Toronto Centre as well as our neighbouring communities. For more information on each event, please check out our Calendar page!

Tuesday, May 14th at 9:30am
Emily’s House Children’s Hospice Official Grand Opening
562 Gerrard St. (just west of Broadview Ave.)

Wednesday, May 22nd at 3:00pm
Belmont House Annual General Meeting
(followed by a reception at 4:00pm
55 Belmont Street – Auditorium

Bob Rae: Statement on Israeli Apartheid Week

OTTAWA– Liberal Leader Bob Rae made the following statement on events planned at several Canadian universities that will demonize Israel:

“The events in the next few days that go by the deeply prejudicial name ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ continue to be a counterproductive way to achieve social justice in the Middle East. When all who desire peace in the region should be supporting and encouraging respectful dialogue between parties, this week sets out to do the opposite.

Canadian universities and academic institutions have a long history of providing a space to engage in enlightened discourse on issues of justice and equality. For this reason, it is all the more difficult to comprehend a focus that ignores terrible atrocities presently taking place in the region.
We should also be wary of group-vilifying speech that seeks to delegitimize or demonize. Indeed, as our own Supreme Court found unanimously just this past week in affirming the constitutionality of hate speech legislation, such speech seeks to delegitimize group members, reducing their social standing and acceptance within society.

The failure to stand up for these real and pressing injustices is undermined by an approach that puts all the blame for inaction on only one country. Demonizing one people and one country does not encourage reconciliation, cooperation or respectful discourse about peace and democratization in the Middle East. A constructive approach to the Israeli-Palestinian issue would be more effective if it persuaded governments and civil society to work with both parties to reach a negotiated resolution based on dialogue and understanding.”

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