Giving Circle Canada Meetup Group - Lower Mainland BC

In 2008 British Columbia had the highest poverty rate (16.1%) and highest child poverty rate (21.9%) of all the provinces in Canada for the 5th year in a row!

We are a group that was created to make a difference in our community by pooling our funds, time and talents in a giving way. This is a personal, one to one, way of making a charitable contribution.

We are Micro Givers!

We are DIFFERENT. This is more personal!

I am sure you remember that wonderful feeling you get when you do some good and selflessly help another person.

I was in the grocery store, lined up at the cashier to pay for my groceries and there was a young woman with two small children ahead of me paying for her purchases. The cashier said "that will be $82.25 please". A look of panic came across the woman's face and then a tear rolled down her cheek. She said to the cashier "I'm sorry, I am a little short, can I return a few items" and she proceeded to pick items from her groceries to return. I noticed she was returning food items, but not the food items meant for the children. I asked the young woman how much she was short and she said "about $20" in a still quivering voice. I told her to keep her groceries and handed the cashier a $20 bill. The young woman's mouth dropped open and she just hugged me! I never felt so good.

This was just a random happening; I just was in the right place at the right time and was able to help. But there are lots of other people who may find themselves in a situation like that but there is no knight in shining armor that shows up to rescue them in their time of need.

That's what Citizens Care is all about finding those people that may be at a point in their life that could use a helping hand but don't know where to go. And matching them up with all you knights in shining armor that can lend that helping hand. Through the power of the internet and our website you can have a personal connection with helping someone, just as I did for that moment in the grocery store.

Join Citizens Care on our website at Citizens-Care.org! Look through our listing of those who need some help and give. There is no better feeling on earth.

Our members are also involved in referring people in need, who require our support.

Examples of direct individual support in your community could be …

Funding for an individual/group that sees a need for a support group in their community to get it started
A child that needs dental work, a single mom that can’t afford it
A security deposit for a family that would allow them to obtain subsidized housing
Emergency medical supplies for a homeless shelter that does not have the budget to resupply
Help for a battered woman’s shelter
Provide a ride for a senior woman who cannot afford the daily transportation costs to visit her husband in the hospital
Maybe you have heard or know of someone in need. Now you can do something, suggest that our group make a grant and follow it thru to actually delivering the funds to the person/group in need!