UN Refugee Agency and Face-to-Face Fundraising!

Face to Face Canvasser The UN Refugee Agency is coming to your door to ask you to join our Emergency Response Team through monthly support!

We believe that members of the public would be interested in speaking with the UN Refugee Agency representatives to learn more about our services and how they could support our efforts to assist refugees and other displaced individuals around the world.

That’s why we are asking our supporters to sign up to give an automatic monthly donation through their checking account or on a credit card. That way, we save on mailing and administrative costs and put your gift to work right away.

As such, we have authorized Fundraising Initiatives to conduct face-to-face fundraising on our behalf in Southern Ontario. Our representatives are carefully selected and fully trained. In addition, they are required to follow strict guidelines approved by the UN Refugee Agency.

Fundraisers from Fundraising Initiatives working on the UN Refugee Agency behalf:

wear photo ID badges, UN Refugee Agency apparel, and have available various UN Refugee Agency information and educational materials;
cannot accept any cash donations;
provide a “Welcome Package” to people who join “Emergency Response Team”, our monthly giving program and will distribute materials to residents who indicate a strong interest in becoming a donor, but do not wish to join the monthly giving program on the day of the visit.

Any personal information provided by you, will only be used for processing and administrative purposes such as providing correspondence and income tax receipts. All information will remain confidential.

Please feel free to contact the UN Refugee Agency if you have any questions at withyou@unchr.ca or toll free at 1-877-232-0909.

Why we need you to join our team...

Monthly help from you means our Emergency Response Team gets the kind of steady, reliable support they depend on all year round. Your monthly donations will enable them to prepare for future emergencies – and go straight into action when a crisis arises.

This is the best possible way you can offer your help. Making a monthly donation to our team is easy and makes such a big difference to our work – so much so that we consider monthly supporters as truly one of the team.

Look at what your donations could pay for over a year:

$15 a month could pay for lifesaving full medical check-ups for 54 refugee children in urgent need of healthcare.

$20 a month could provide 48 large blankets to keep people warm at night in harsh and difficult conditions.

$25 a month could sink a well to provide clean and drinkable water for refugees.

$30 a month could buy 18 refugee families a complete kitchen set, containing everything they need to prepare meals.

$40 a month could provide survival kits for 5 refugee families including blankets, cooking items, water carriers and plastic sheeting to protect them from the elements.

$50 a month could help us provide all-season tents to shelter 7 families of 5 from the elements.

Adut Dau Atem, a refugee from Sudan, survived with help from the UN Refugee Agency’s Emergency Response Team.

‘When I was eight years old, and cold and hungry, I was given food, water and I was sheltered. After I had these things I had to ask, where did all these things come from? I wanted to see who this person was. All I wanted to do was say thank you.’