Compassion

Saving Lives, One Child At A Time

At RG Chiropractic we are thrilled because we are committed to transforming families' lives both here in Lethbridge and around the world. We are a part of "Chiropractors with Compassion", a charity that has partnered with Compassion Canada in raising money to release children around the world from poverty. We donate $20 of every new patient examination fee to fund child-centered projects in many countries around the world.

Our Ninth Project

Secondary Education for the children of Mathare Valley, Nairboi, Kenya

In 2006, Chiropractors with Compassion provided support for 399 children from the Mathare Valley to attend school, as well as provide daily meals for 750 children. This ensured that hundreds of children have avoided a life of drugs and prostitution, in order to survive.

Our new partnership will give 111 students the opportunity to receive a quality secondary school education and further their hope for a better tomorrow.

Project 9- Completed 2009

Goal- $55,550

Our Eighth Project

Transforming a Community From the Inside Out 

Over the past 3 and a half years, CWC has completed 7 child-centered projects in 5 different countries. Upon the completion of this 8th project, which started in March 2008, we will have attained our goal of $1,000,000 in donations! We are excited about the impact that your generous contributions have made and we look forward to continuing our journey in transofmring the lives of children around the world. Your referrals are saving lives! We thank you.

Project 8- Completed April 2009 

Dominican Republic Goal- $305,664

Our Sixth and Seventh Project

Water for the Children of the Dominican Republic and Ecuador

In association with Healing Water Ministry, Compassion International wants to install four water systems in different partner churches in the Dominican Republic which will allow more than 5,000 people access to pure healthful water.

Project 6- Completed in December 2007

Project 7- Completed in March 2008

Dominican Republic Goal- $69,451

Ecuador Goal- $66,780

Our Fifth Project

Water for the Children of Haiti

One of the biggest challenges that children face everyday, is accessing clear and potable water. To help solve this problem, COMPASSION Haiti is providing water cisterns. Five projects and more than 2500 sponsored children and their families will be the beneficiaries of clean and potable water.

Completed in October 2007 

Hope for the Widows and Orphans of the Nyanza Province

The Nyanza Housing project will help poor and vulnerable people trying to cope with the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS. The project's target group are the widows and orphans of the Nyanza province in Kenya. The children are sick from poor nutrition and the deplorable conditions they live in. The project will help these widows, and the children they care for, repair and re-build their homes. The project will build exactly 50 homes - usually between 6 to 10 children live in each home. The homes will protect widows and children from rain, mosquitoes, other insects and snakes. It will give them a clean, healthy and secure living environment. Latrines will enable these families to improve sanitation and reduce the incidence of intestinal infections.

This project was completed in June 2007(in six short months) raising $204,450.00

Our Third Project

Hope for the Children in the Streets of Nairobi

The third Chiropractors with Compassion project was completed in November 2006. The project takes place in the Mathare Valley, Nairobi, Kenya.

In the Mathare slum, more than 600,000 people live in desperate destitution and squalor. Families are crowded together in one-room mud or cardboard shacks, roofed with assorted pieces of corrugated tin, cardboard, or grass. Unemployment is endemic. Because of poor sanitation, outbreaks of typhoid and other diseases are common. Most families have no stable income, and children receive no schooling. Many live on the streets, and as many as 60% of the children resort to thievery, prostitution, begging, or scavenging in order to survive.

Since 1997, the Mathare Street Children Rescue Centre has been ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of the children and families who live in the slums of Nairobi. Church workers and volunteers dispense food, education, health care, and family support to slum children.

Project Goals

1. Primary school education for 399 children.
2. Education and meals for 750 children.
3. Family support, when appropriate, to empower parents to care more effectively for their children.

 Chiropractors with Compassion raised $125,000 for the Mathare project.

Our Second Project

Student Teacher Environmental Program

The second Chiropractors with Compassion project has recently been completed. STEP, or Student Teacher Environmental Program, took place in the Machakos and Kajiado districts of Kenya. In this area of Kenya, barriers to education still exist and include: hunger, distance, finances, recognition of relevance, gender, HIV/AIDS, and cultural practices such as early marriage and pregnancy.

STEP exists to improve nutrition for school children and improve their access to the formal education system. The project will also establish and maintain agro-forestry demonstration plots and gardens at the primary school level. 42 teachers in 12 schools will be trained to participate in STEP. The cost of the project is $499, 800 (CDN), and the Chiropractors with Compassion goal was $100,000. Every dollar raised will be matched 2:1 by the Bridgeway Foundation.

A cheque for $100,000 was presented to Compassion Canada on Saturday, November 12, 2005 at the Warrior Coaching Leadership Summit 2 in Toronto, Ontario.

Our First Project

Water for the Children

Villagers in Kisoro cannot dig or install latrines because of the hard, volcanic soil. They must collect water from drainage ditches shared by animals. Twice a day, children as young as 6 or 7, many of them AIDS orphans, travel several kilometres through mosquito-infested swamps in order to collect water. The children miss school hours and put themselves at risk of catching malaria to collect the polluted water. By equipping the town with preformed water storage tanks provided by a local manufacturer, Water for the Children aims to harvest rainwater and provide a safe water supply for the community.

The cost of the Kisoro Water for the Children project was $61, 875 (CDN). This goal was reached in February, 2005, through the help of chiropractors across Canada who have joined to help fund Chiropractors with Compassion.