Richmond Lavenderland is one of our sponsors to our youths and families experiencing little farming on these value-added crop. Base on Lavenderland’s vision on building and strengthening the relationship between people and land, FunforGoal Foundation teams have opportunity on the following with the Lavenderland and not limited to.
Volunteering Activities – community outreach
Educational field trip & special day events- school trips and summer camp trips
South Surrey Rockies Farm Market aims to provide a unique shopping experience for the neighborhood and provides this opportunity to local youths’ input on building a local community market together.
FunforGoal Foundation has been offered a chance to bring on a group of youths to participate at the beginning stage of the research and development. Skills and experience gained from working on this project will benefit you in areas such as,
relevant to high school CLC (Capstone project)
real-world application
future job search, interview
This three months long project will provide our youth volunteers valuable work experience and job-specific skills practice opportunities in the career fields of social media communication & marketing, data collection & analyzing, event planning, and so on.
FunforGOal Foundation invited youths and their families using the most popular selfie video style to record a 1 minute clip to wish elderlies living in the Villa Cathay Care home a happy Lunar New Year! Show their talent in this clip, help to bring some joy and hope to them in 2021, in this pandemic!
Special thanks to our young host, Jonathan (Jazer) Wu!
Special thanks to Yen, #yenlarts, a local artist for making a contribution to Villa Cathay in support of this activity!
History of Villa Cathay Care Home
A long term care home originally built back in 1922, named Oriental Home, was for the Chinese immigrants who came during gold rush and to built railways. It was a home for those who lived through the harsh times and inequalities. Nowadays, Oriental Home has long changed it’s name to Villa Cathay , moved to a new location, but continue being a non-profit organization providing culturally focused nursing care for Chinese ethnicity elderlies.
There are many ways of volunteering, engaging your community, and during the pandemic, we learn to live through adversity by continuing finding ways making positive changes in our daily life.
In December 2020, FunforGOal Foundation has organized an online volunteer activity “I see, I care Project”. This is a 3 sessions of an online community engagement activity taking place on December 12th, 19th and 26th. By attending all 3 sessions, participants will obtain up to 7 volunteering hours, and get to explore and discuss social issues on aboriginal reconciliation in Canada, and history of Chinese immigrants.
FunforGOal Foundation has invited Ms. Joey from Villa Cathay Care Home to give us a virtual tour of the center and a presentation on its history and services. Villa Cathay Care has a long history of caring for senior Chinese immigrants back in 1922. Those who lived in 1922 were some of the first generation of Chinese immigrants who came to BC to build railways and during the Gold Rush period. Villa Cathay was established as a non-profit organization and continues to be one today.
In addition, we also have Ms. Maura Gowans, the Executive Director of the Aboriginal Mother Centre Society to join us sharing her own personal story of growing up under the effects of Residential School. The struggles she was facing then, and how she overcame, and used that experience to empower others are inspirational! She has also shown us how important it is for reconciliation to take place, and the effort of helping aboriginal people regain their culture, language and history back.
Christmas is coming, as we bid farewell to 2020, we hope for a better year in 2021. As much as we would like to celebrate, drink champagne and feast with our family and friends in this year’s holidays, it will be quite difficult to do so with the social bans! However, there is no stopping for you to send your wishes and blessings to your loved ones. No doubt, 2020 has been a difficult year for all businesses and none-profit organizations, and especially for Rabbitats. Being a volunteer-run charity group that depends on generating revenue by donation and hosting events, Rabbitats are unable to do much because of the pandemic. Since, rabbitats are not as popular as dogs and cats, they can be easily missed by the public. Yen Ling, #yenlarts @yenlarts, a local Vancouver artist, who has step-up and started a fundraising project with FunforGOal.ca. Yen designed and drew beautiful art pieces in support of Rabbitats. Instead of getting other greeting cards, let’s help Rabbitats to stay afloat by purchasing their holiday cards to send your wishes and blessings to your family and friends this year. All net profits will be donated to Rabbitats in helping to continue providing food, shelter and care for over 300 rabbits into 2021!
