Recipients
Explore the list of 2023 recipients below for more information about their work.
Afretech
Afretech is a small, effective organization that has been working in the Developing World since 1992 and a registered Canadian and US charity since January 2000. Our goal is to help people help themselves. We provide schools with libraries, computers, technology training, and even build schools where there is a great need.
BC Heritage Fairs
The BC Heritage Fairs Society is a non-profit organization and registered charity dedicated to history education. Our goal is to foster in young people a deeper understanding of the present, by encouraging them to engage with and question the past.
Betty Huff Theatre Co.
Provide young people with quality theatre opportunities to help them grow in confidence. We unleash the power of curiosity, empathy, and imagination. Our mission is to inspire children to dream, explore, think, and connect through theatre. We bring stories to life in a way that encourages children to dream about who they are and may become. We explore story from different perspectives and connect to other people and ideas.
Bright Beginnings
We believe that everyone deserves to live a poverty-free life. We level the playing field so that Surrey high-school graduates, regardless of family income, have an equal opportunity to attend a post-secondary institution and obtain a career. BBF is working to eliminate generational poverty in families by providing tuition, student fees and educational materials, such as textbooks or tools of the trade.
Canadian Friends of Oaxaca Inc. (CANFRO)
CANFRO is a not-for-profit volunteer organization incorporated in the Province of Ontario and registered as a charity with Canada Revenue Agency. We fund and implement a variety of projects in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. CANFRO remains neutral toward all political and religious organizations.
Download Project UpdateCanadian Harambee Education Society
Giving girls the chance to educate themselves.
Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan
We exist to make the right to education a reality for Afghan women and girls.
Download Quarterly ReportCompassion Fruit – Project Somos
The Project Somos Children’s Village is a nurturing educational community for at-risk children in Guatemala.
Days for Girls Canada
Days for Girls Canada Society is a registered Canadian not for profit and is a Country Affiliate with Days for Girls International. Volunteers across Canada mobilize to increase access to menstrual products and vital health information for women and girls around the world.
Families for Children
Families for Children (FFC) is a non profit, non-sectarian organization that exists to fulfill the needs of children and young adults with physical and/or mental disabilities. By providing housing, education, special medical care and vocational training, FFC helps these individuals to reach their full potential and live with dignity in a loving environment.
Gibson’s Marine Education
On March 17th 2017 the Gibsons Marine Education Centre (Society) was formed to advance education and to protect the environment for the benefit of the public by undertaking projects that sustain the marine ecosystem of Howe Sound, British Columbia and beyond. The first initiative of the society was establishing and operating the Nicholas Sonntag Marine Education Centre on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
https://soifoundation.org/en/company/nicholas-sonntag-marine-education-centre/
Guatemala Stove Project
To assist in the relief of poverty, and improve the health and well being of the indigenous and other disadvantaged peoples of Guatemala, and of similar peoples in other areas.
HEAL International
HEAL International responds to local priorities in Uganda by providing opportunities in health, education, and leadership development.
Innovative Communities
We focus on the alleviation of poverty and the advancement of education. But more than that, it is an ongoing exercise in working collaboratively, innovatively, and transparently, in everything that we do, so that we can provide the maximum benefit to those we serve.
Into All The World
Into All The World began in 1981 when several pastors and lay people met in Kitchener, Ontario to begin a mission enabling society: to enable individuals and churches to fulfill the call of God on their life in the area of missions.
Kenya Education Endowment Fund – KEEF
The primary mission of the Kenya Education Endowment Fund (KEEF) is to provide scholarships for very bright students from Kakamega County in Western Kenya who do not have the financial means to pay the fees for secondary and post secondary education. Secondary school fees are $600 or more per year.
Learning for Humanity
There are millions of children who still have not learned to read, write or do basic math. Learning for Humanity is trying to change this, one school at a time.
Light & Salt Ministries Nicaragua
Disciple, help, train, and empower Nicaraguans to break the cycle of mental, spiritual, and physical poverty.
Love Guatemala (Comm. to Every Nation)
CTEN is a servant organization which helps missionaries fulfill the unique vision God has given them. Through administrative support we provide accountability and help the missionary get to the field. Through pastoral care we help them remain effective and healthy while there.
One Girl Can
One Girl Can gives some of the world’s most vulnerable, high-potential girls a chance to rise above extreme poverty and gender inequality. Through education, training, and mentoring, girls are empowered to achieve their goals, earn a meaningful living, and build better lives — for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Planting Seeds
For over 20 years, Planting Seeds International has created a progressive, self-sustaining organization that improves access to quality education to develop healthy children, families, and communities across Guatemala.
STEP International
To transform and change the lives of underprivileged children, under-resourced national men and women in downtrodden communities through multi-faceted sustainable development programs in South Asia.
STEP International is a registered Canadian charity. Our vision is education for destitute children in Odisha, West Bengal and Assam states of northern India. Our mission is to provide affordable, accessible education to children from all backgrounds. We commit to equip the teachers, students and the schools with resources and training.
We are indeed grateful to R. R. Smith Memorial Foundation for the grant for the purchase of materials for the library. With your financial help, STEP International selected schools in West Bengal and Assam states of India to help with resources for their library and students. With the funds from R. R. Smith Foundation, we provide various education books and materials to the 300 students in the elementary sections. We were able to purchase textbooks for the children who cannot afford books for the current school academic year. We will continue to strengthen the schools that are helping children in remote places.
We thank you for your valuable support for the grant!
Tumaini Fund Canada
“Tumaini” is Swahili for hope and the Tumaini Fund is bringing support and hope for a better future to AIDS orphans widows and poor families in the Dioceses of Kagera, Lweru, Biharamulo and Kibondo, in the north-west region of Tanzania.
Umoja Operation Compassion Society
We are a newcomer settlement and charitable organization formed in 2002 to work with recent immigrants and refugees of all cultural backgrounds living in Surrey, BC.
Vancouver Opera Guild
The purposes of the Vancouver Opera Guild are to stimulate interest and participation in, and otherwise encourage and support the continuation and growth of opera in Vancouver, Canada, and to provide financial support, including scholarships, bursaries, and awards, to young people pursuing a career in opera.
Victoria-Taiaima Partnership Society
Our purpose is to work together to improve the well-being of the people of Taiama and surrounding areas in Sierra Leone through education and health services, focusing on women and children.
Hello Barb and the RRSMith committee.
Thank you so much for your ongoing support of our project! I have attached some photos of the sewing program that you are supporting through your $2,000 grant. The 2022-23 group of students will graduate in May, and have completed several projects, including baby clothes, dresses and robes, school uniforms and personal kits consisting of a draw string bag containing menstrual pads, underwear and a washcloth.
With gratitude,
Maureen Mark
Victoria-Taiama Partnership
Image include: game tunics for sports activities, personal kits and uniform skirts for the 40 girls who receive supplies as part of our Secondary School Girls Program, and some of the 40 recipients of the tunics, uniform skirts and personal kits made by the sewing program students.
Wonderful World of Books
95 year old Qualicum Beach resident, Eva Hilborn, created The Wonderful World of Books because she believes that reading with children builds lifelong language skills and a love for learning. Studies have shown that children who have a home library growing up have greater chances of success in adulthood. Eva believes that the 24 books they will receive through her foundation will set them up to succeed in life.
