LCBO stores raise funds for Variety - the Children's Charity and Variety
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Specifically geared to people with physical and intellectual disabilities, Variety is dedicated to promoting inclusion and integration and strives to make people of all abilities fully accepted everywhere. Proceeds from the LCBO provincial donation box program will be used in support of Variety Village's Fitness Friends program. Fitness Friends partners a special needs student with a mentoring peer and encourages them to participate in inclusive physical activities outside the school curriculum. These two-person teams, each with the support of an educator, participate in as many inclusive sport and recreation activities as possible during recess, lunch, and before and after school. Every team's participation is acknowledged at the annual Celebration Day at the end of the school year. This program touches thousands of students, their families and educators each year and is expanding its reach across the province.
"We thank LCBO, its employees and especially its customers for providing us with the opportunity to share our cause," says
"We take our community involvement very seriously and are pleased to partner with Variety - The Children's Charity and Variety Village," says LCBO President and CEO
Variety - The Children's Charity and Variety Village is one of 26 provincial, as well as numerous local charities that will benefit from the LCBO's province-wide donation box program in 2010. In 2009, LCBO raised a total of
Variety - The Children's Charity and Variety Village thanks the public for its support when shopping at their local LCBO store during February.
For further information: Media Contacts: Lynda Elmy, Director, Communications, Variety - The Children's Charity and Variety Village, Tel: (416) 698-4032, Fax: (416) 699-4845, E-mail: [email protected]; Stephanie Petroff, LCBO Senior Communications Consultant, Tel: (416) 864-6792, Fax: (416) 864-6850, E-mail: [email protected]
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