Children’s Aid makes appeal for donations

WINDSOR-ESSEX — The Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Foundation is reaching out to the community at large to help them help local families to make ends meet.

The Embracing Families Fund helps eliminate challenges for families so they can strengthen relationships amongst themselves, resulting in the home becoming a safe, enriching environment for the children who live in it.

There is little or no government funding or other sources of support for the assistance that families need.

The fund will help out in many instances, including scenarios such as a grandparent, living alone on a fixed income, who takes their grandchild into their home temporarily while the child’s parents work to build their relationship with their child. The grandparent has no resources to cover the cost of a bed and related furniture for the child.

Equally, if an aunt and uncle offer to open up their home to their niece and nephew while their mother works on addressing her personal shortcomings. There is no funding to continue gymnastics and hockey lessons for them.

Or perhaps a single parent is keeping it together on a part-time job while taking college courses at night to eventually improve their home environment. Their refrigerator breaks down. There is no remaining income to fix it.

If you’d like to make a donation to the fund, you can do so by visiting www. wecaf.on.ca and making a gift to the John & Sophia Chisholm Embracing Families Fund.