To contact woundedwarriors.ca for media inquiries as follows;
President Wayne Johnston
Tel: 647-239-3863
Toll Free: 1-888-499-9996
E-mail: info@woundedwarriors.ca
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Wounded Warriors.ca is an independent not-for-profit charity that supports Canadian soldiers wounded overseas. It is primarily a fundraising mechanism that supports existing programs that tend to injured soldiers.
- Wounded Warriors‘ volunteers pose with fund supporter Gene Simmons, July 2009 in Toronto, Ontario
In three years, Wounded Warriors.ca has raised more than $600,000 and as a largely volunteer organization is able to keep its administration costs well below 5%. The health of this fund is a credit to the benevolence of Canadian corporations and citizens alike. Wounded Warriors.ca recognizes the priority to treat visible and non-visible injuries, like that of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Wounded Warriors.ca helps in five streams of support:
• Program Support – Funding exisiting credible support programs;
• Individual Support – Assisting wounded members directly;
• New Programs – Funding support for pilot and forward thinking programs;
• Awareness – Contributing a voice for issues about the wounded; and
• Partnerships – with agencies that tend to injured members and veterans.
Wounded Warriors.ca was started by Captain Wayne Johnston when he was a military Assisting Officer for a severely wounded 20-year old soldier injured on September 18, 2006 in a suicide bombing near Kandahar City in Afghanistan. While he was at the hospital in Germany he was so touched by the generosity of medical staff who dipped into their own pockets to provide quality of life needs for wounded soldiers. He started the charity immediately upon his return and it has grown steadily. It is now the military charity of choice from corporations – seeking an official charity – to citizens holding local fundraising events.
"… words alone can not convey the benefit this fund has on the morale and well- being of our soldiers who pass through LRMC (Germany). It also has a tremendous impact on our Canadian Forces’ members who are deployed here to support those who have been wounded. It is an amazing gift!"
Captain Heather Smith, Chaplain
