Helping Children Discover their Potential
Back-to-school should be an exciting time: new classes, new teachers, and new opportunities to thrive in extracurricular activities like soccer or dance.
For children, these activities can become an important part of their world. It’s where they meet friends, discover what they love, build confidence, and find their place.
But for many children in our community, participating in extracurricular activities remains financially out of reach.
For single moms, September can bring a wave of new expenses: school supplies, new clothes, shoes, lunch supplies, and registration fees. All of this comes on top of rent, groceries, and the other essentials that already stretch their budgets.
Happy Healthy Children helps change that.
With your support, 140 children will have access to year-round financial assistance for extracurricular activities, giving them the chance to participate, pursue their interests, and experience the joy of being part of something.
And here’s the exciting part: thanks to a generous donor, all gifts made by September 26 will be matched up to $15,000—meaning your gift will go twice as far!
Happy Healthy Children Opens Doors
Alex* has always been a little shy.
Group activities have never really been their thing. They tend to hang back, and finding an extracurricular activity where they felt comfortable wasn’t easy.
Skateboarding was different.
Alex started skating with their mom, Grace, when they were four. They would go to local skateparks together, and over the years, it became something they both loved. It was time together, but it also gave Alex a way to get out of the house and do something that felt like their own.
Through the skate community and time spent at their favourite local shop, Alex became fascinated with downhill longboarding. Before long, they wanted to try it for themselves.
There was just one problem: the gear.
Longboarding requires better protective equipment, and Alex needed new skateboarding shoes, too. Expenses Grace simply could not afford.
That's when Mom2Mom stepped in.
Through Happy Healthy Children, Alex was able to get the gear they needed.
Now, Alex gets to spend their time doing something they love. They’ve found a community where they feel comfortable, met people they look up to, and have a reason to get out of the house and be part of something.
And Grace gets to be there alongside them. They still skate together, just like they have since Alex was little.
“It’s opened a lot of doors for us that otherwise wouldn’t have been open,” Grace explains.
For Alex, it meant being able to keep pursuing something they love, while finding a community where they feel like they truly belong.
*Names and photos have been changed to protect privacy