When Karen, a single mom, was exploring healthy, safe, fun summer activities for her 10-year-old daughter Faith, she heard about YMCA camps. Her daughter had never been away from home for an extended period, so she wanted to find something for her during the day. She...
When James Miller and his wife needed to leave their remote town for his cancer treatment, they found financial support through the Canadian Cancer Society Travel Treatment Fund. During James Miller’s slow recovery from double pneumonia, his doctor began noticing...
Young people across Canada reach out to Kids Help Phone (KHP) at all hours of the day and night—sometimes in moments of crisis, sometimes with questions they’ve never spoken aloud, and sometimes simply looking for someone to hear them. These conversations reflect the...
Yul Kwon has some advice on how to still be running long distances well into your 90s — don’t start until you’re 60. “Maybe that’s why I can carry on even now,” laughs the 90-year-old of his own late-in-life start — he ran his first full marathon at 68 years old —...
At Canuck Place Children’s Hospice, parents are courageous, resilient, and fierce. Kerena and Jordan Letcher are no exception. When their son, Heston was diagnosed as a toddler with Sanfilippo syndrome—a rare, terminal metabolic disorder, their world changed forever....
When you run the BMO Vancouver Marathon, you’re doing more than chasing a finish line. You’re helping save lives. Every step you take fuels research breakthroughs. For more than 70 years, Heart & Stroke has been leading the fight to beat heart disease and stroke....
After a childhood cancer diagnosis left the Hatfield family feeling isolated and fearful, Camp Goodtimes gave them a greater support system and new memories.A cancer experience can set families on a course that can bring difficult challenges, changes to their social...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a disease characterized by an unrelenting progression, systematically eroding a person's ability to move, speak, and breathe. This devastating diagnosis initiates an immediate and profound disruption, demanding an extraordinary...
The smallest act of kindness can mean everything. After a heart attack, Deborah's house learned her silence. Mornings stretched endlessly. She memorized the hum of the fridge and the pattern of the wallpaper. Friends said, “Take it slow.” But slow to Deborah, felt...
When Anna and her family moved to Canada from Brazil, they were excited for a new beginning — but the early months were harder than they expected. “In the beginning, it was a real struggle to find work and adjust to life in a new country,” she says. “We faced many...
In June, Kids Help Phone announced the next evolution of Canada’s largest youth mental health movement. Powered by new insights from more than 50 million real-time, real-language, geographically tagged data points and grounded in over three decades of trust, this next...
At 70 years old, Julie Melanie is rewriting what it means to age, to live with a disability, and to follow a dream. As the founder of Enviro Bag Evolution—and a proud entrepreneur from Employ to Empower — Julie has built a business that began from personal necessity...
