WHERE DO YOUR POPPY DONATIONS GET SPENT?
Money donated during The Royal Canadian Legion's annual Poppy-Remembrance Campaign is placed in public trust funds. Some of the many ways this money is used to improve life for people in your community include:
- providing assistance to needy ex-service members and their families
- purchasing medical equipment and appliances for community health facilities
- paying for medical research and training
- building affordable housing for veterans and senior citizens
- paying for bursaries for needy students
- providing support services to senior citizens (meals-on-wheels, drop-in centres, etc.)
- providing assistance to needy ex-service members and their families
- purchasing medical equipment and appliances for community health facilities
- paying for medical research and training
- building affordable housing for veterans and senior citizens
- paying for bursaries for needy students
- providing support services to senior citizens (meals-on-wheels, drop-in centres, etc.)
THE POPPY
The Poppy is our emblem of supreme sacrifice and must forever hold an honoured place in our hearts; an image immortalizing as it does our remembrance and honouring of those who laid down their lives for ideals which they, we and all Canadians rightfully cherish. It shall challenge us to serve in PEACE, as in war, to help those who need our help and to protect those who need and deserve our protection. The cross of sacrifice, on appropriate occasions, is symbolic of the same worthy principles of remembrance.