Breakfast for Kids

Covid-19 virus will disproportionately harm the most vulnerable and impoverished in our society. Thousands of school children across the GTA rely on breakfast nutrition programs and support. Now caught in school closures many are at risk of going without. This includes many of the children we treat at the Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care.

Their Need is Desperate.

$20 will provide breakfast for one child — for an entire week

"WHEN WE FAIL TO PROVIDE HEALTHCARE EQUALLY, TO ALL IN OUR COMMUNITIES, WE PROVIDE HEALTHCARE TO NO ONE IN OUR COMMUNITIES” Doctor Paul Caulford March 20, 2020

Health providers, first responders everywhere on the front lines -- nurses, physicians, PSWs, EMS and others need our help now - to protect us, our communities, and themselves.Critical gaps in access to life saving Personal Protective Equipment are occurring now in our hospitals, Emergency Rooms, community doctor's clinics .... everywhere in our health system.Yesterday desperate ER doctors in Scarborough and east Toronto reached out to provider colleagues and the public.Rationing, re-use of PPE is now a shocking, dangerous reality.The ask is simple and desperate. Anyone with PPE supplies, please get them onto the faces, the hands, the bodies of our first responders. Masks, gowns, face shields, gloves...If you have donations of PPE please connect, message us through the comments on our Facebook page. We will see they get to our front-liners immediately.Today we are donating as much as we can of our own PPE supplies at our Centre to our front colleagues, responders.Please join us.

Thank you Premier Ford and Health Minister Elliot, and all those who helped us move this forward, for protecting ALL Ontarians, ALL in our community.

“From the Ontario government letter to hospitals and other care sites…The Ministry of Health ("Ministry") is committed to ensuring that all people in Ontario receive medically necessary health care during the COVID-19 outbreak. To this end, and until further notice, the Ministry requests hospitals provide all medically necessary services to all persons who present at a hospital, regardless of whether the person presents a valid OHIP card, or does not have health insurance under OHIP or another provincial health insurance plan. Services for uninsured persons should be prioritized consistent with the prioritization of services for insured persons. Uninsured persons should not be provided with services currently not available to insured persons (e.g., if the hospital is currently not performing elective surgeries)….. "

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Chemotherapy, then surgery to remove her cancerous breast, then more chemo followed by radiation lies urgently ahead. The cost will be an estimated $40,000. Our first goal is to raise the $12,000 for chemo and to have Grace's cancer surgically removed.

Grace has breast cancer. For 20 years she has lived and worked full time in central Toronto. She needs surgery urgently. Then she will need chemotherapy, meds and radiation. With treatment, Grace has a chance to live. Without it, she will not make it. Grace is young, 51.

But Grace is medically uninsured. Despite her contributions, Canada still denies Grace access to federal health coverage. Ontario denies her too. For Grace, OHIP means NOHIP.

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Her Journey

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From a handful of doctors and nurses treating patients in a borrowed church basement, our Centre provides medical, dental mental health and dietary care to thousands of refugees, immigrants and other newcomers to Canada. At the same time we have grown to be a nationally recognized authority on the healthcare and well-being of newcomers to Canada.

Our Inter-disciplinary team of over 70 doctors, dentists, nurses, and other health and social professionals have generously volunteered their time, skills and funds in an effort to ensure that every newcomer receives access in Canada to health care when they need it, without judgment for their immigration status or their ability to pay.

Who are we?

20

Years

Doctors Within Borders

500,000

They are new to Canada, ineligible for insured services at times on their Canadian journey. They rely on the medical lifeline of CCRIHC’s free clinics as their only hope. Over 50,000 medical visits and counting. As the number of displaced migrants throughout the world rises dramatically we see it ripple through our clinics. We are always taking on a growing number of newcomers when they are ill and uninsured / underinsured. Healthcare plays a vital role in restoring their health, hopes, dignity, and resiliency for long-term success in Canada.

$24.4 Million

Our clinics ease the pressure on Canada’s health care system. Keeping patients healthier in the community, reducing expensive hospital care is what we do every day.

An estimated

People are living, often working in Ontario but are denied OHIP

Saved for Canada's Health System