World Vision Canada

The holidays are almost here. There’s Christmas music on the radio, stores are filled with festive goodies, and Santa Claus has even been showing up to meet with the little ones. That means it’s time to follow our holiday tradition and kick off The GATE’s Holiday Gift Guides with the all-important first edition: our charity gift guide.

The Courage Polar Bear Dip is a family tradition in Oakville that sees over 700 participants from across southern Ontario plunge into Lake Ontario on January 1st to ring in the New Year while thousands of spectators cheer them on. It’s fun and it’s for a good cause, supporting clean water projects through World Vision Canada.

World Food Day (WFD)–October 16–was founded by the United Nations’ (UN) in 1945 to increase awareness of world hunger and poverty and to inspire solutions for change. Approximately 805 million people in the world, or 1 in 9 people, suffer from hunger every year, and hunger and malnutrition are linked to one third of all child deaths around the world. Five children die every minute because they are not eating enough healthy food.