Charity

Rotary

Rotary is an organization of 1.2 million business and professional leaders providing humanitarian service and building goodwill and peace in the world.

Some 31,000 Rotary Clubs in over 165 countries carry out service projects in their local communities and abroad to address such critical issues as poverty, health, hunger, illiteracy and the environment. Rotary has very nearly eradicated polio worldwide through many years of consistent effort with the careful and effective expenditure of generous contributions worldwide including a major contribution from the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation.

The Advantage team supports Rotary through participation in local Rotary Club fund raising activities for the betterment of our local communities and also international projects. Advantage's president is a participating and active member of the Rotary Club of Burnaby Deer Lake and invites anyone interested in learning more about Rotary and local club opportunities to contact us at info@youradvantage.com Further information about Rotary worldwide can be obtained through www.rotary.org.

Plan (Formerly Foster Parents Plan)

Plan's vision is of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people's rights and dignity.

Plan aims to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of children, families and communities in developing countries. Plan does this through a process of collaboration that unites people across cultures, adding meaning and value to their lives.

Along with over 60,000 well trained volunteers, Plan works with communities to build schools, educate teachers, dig wells, open health clinics, provide vocational training, innovate to improve crop yields, give people access to loans to start small businesses, and much more. Plan does whatever is needed to create an environment iin which children, families and communities can thrive.

Advantage supports plan by corporately sponsoring one foster child per employee. In addition, Advantage contributes to the Plan Clean Water Fund with a donation for every new water service installed. Advantage maintains contact with each foster child by writing several letters each year to every child, and each child, through a community worker writes back to Advantage. The incoming letters are always uplifting to receive and remind our team of the privilege we have to live in North America.

For further information on Plan, visit www.plancanada.ca or call 1 (800) 609-3017