TIC and its employees embrace these charities and their efforts to raise awareness about the issues they champion each and every day. From introducing improved recycling programs and choosing 100% post consumer waste paper when printing, to initiating conversation about child sex tourism with someone who may not be aware, to encouraging vegetarian/vegan choices for staff potlucks (good for the employees and the environment), we always strive to become more socially responsible.
Have a Heart Program
In December 2006, we launched our Have a Heart holiday card program. The goal was to do something good during the holidays and involve our customers in the process. The program generated so much interest it quickly took on a life of its own. The Have a Heart program has extended to all areas of our corporate responsibility commitments.
$16,864 Raised for OneChild, UNICEF and The David Suzuki Foundation
- We raised almost $17,000 for charity during the 2006 holiday season. We decided to donate to charity on behalf of customers rather than spend money on holiday gifts.
TIC Staff Raises Money for OneChild
- In late May, Ruth Simons, our president and CEO, presented two cheques totaling just over $800 resulting from funds raised by TIC staff in the Burnaby and Toronto offices.
Supported Community Organizations
TIC Travel Insurance Coordinators Ltd. is proud to work with and support the worthwhile charities listed below.
OneChild
www.one-child.ca
OneChild is a Canadian-based, non-governmental organization dedicated to the elimination of the commercial sexual exploitation of children abroad. Unlike any other organization dedicated to ending the global sex trade in children, OneChild was uniquely created and is driven by children and youth with a shared passion for playing an active role in confronting the commercial sexual exploitation of children, and preserving the innocence of their peers around the world. OneChild was established as a registered, non-for-profit organization in July 2005.
UNICEF
www.unicef.org
UNICEF believes that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind - to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child's path. They believe that we can, together, advance the cause of humanity.
David Suzuki Foundation
www.davidsuzuki.org
Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas - oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge - the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.
SOS Children's Villages - Sponsorship of an orphaned child
www.soschildrensvillages.ca
SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental and social development organization, which has been active in the field of children's needs, concerns and rights since 1949. Its activities focus on neglected and abandoned children and orphans, as well as disadvantaged families. If a child cannot stay with his/her biological family, his/her right to care, protection and equal opportunities should still be guaranteed. This is the basic principle according to which SOS Children's Villages carries out its activities in 132 countries and territories. SOS Children's Villages makes it possible for children to be part of a family once again by providing family-based care.
PETA
www.peta.org/about
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than 1.6 million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world.
PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other "pests," and the abuse of backyard dogs.
PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement and protest campaigns.
SPCA
www.spca.bc.ca
The BC SPCA is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the quality of life for domestic, farm and wild animals in British Columbia. Through its 36 branches located around BC and its provincial office in Vancouver, the BC SPCA provides a wide range of services for more than 53,000 homeless, abused and abandoned animals around the province. The BC SPCA was created under the auspices of the provincial Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, and is the only animal welfare organization in BC which has the authority to enforce laws relating to animal cruelty and to prepare cases for Crown Counsel for the prosecution of individuals who inflict suffering on animals.
BC Children's Hospital
www.bcchf.ca
Since 1982, BC Children's Hospital Foundation has raised money to support the work of BC Children's Hospital, the province's only pediatric acute care hospital. Funds raised help pay for essential equipment, research and education, benefiting the over 67,000 young patients from across British Columbia who depend on the hospital each year. |
