For this year’s Giving Tuesday*, Hospice Toronto staff are making 100 hand-crafted "Georgie Bears" for our young carers and to raise funds for the annual Young Carers Program (YCP) Family Holiday Party so that each kid can go home with a special little treat over the holidays.

Thanks to you, each of our 100 Georgie bears have been sponsored, so every child that attends the Holiday Party will go home with a special hand-crafted bear! But there is still so much more we can do. Every $10 donation up until Giving Tuesday on November 28^th, 2017 will help put a smile on a young carer’s face and give them a little ‘something special’ over the holidays.

Due to your overwhelmingly positive response, we have been inspired to raise our goal to $3,000 to cover the full cost of the holiday party including the purchase of board games for the families to take home.

For many young carers** who are involved with the caregiving responsibility of a loved one, the holidays, much like any other time of the year, can be a very challenging time. YOU can do something really impactful this holiday season.

DONATE NOW, and every $10 gift will go straight towards helping some really awesome kids with extraordinary responsibilities and their families have an amazing and memorable holiday party on December 10^th! Each donation will take us a step closer to reaching our $3,000 goal by Giving Tuesday.

*Giving Tuesday is part of National Giving Day in Canada, which takes place every year after Cyber Monday, where we Canadians can all join together to rally for our favourite causes.

**Young carers are kids under the age of 18, who are in a caregiving role for a parent, grandparent, sibling or relative with a chronic or life threatening illness. They are the hidden population, with over 700,000 children in Canada alone acting as a primary caregiver or a young carer. The YCP aims to provide therapeutic programming to help kids with adult responsibilities cope and interact with other kids who know exactly what they are going through. So that they, too, can know that they are not alone.