The Trinity Jubilee Foundation

Project Summaries
This document provides a summary of all of Trinity Jubilee Foundation's project work to date.

Project Support for 2011

Cause Canada's Sulimania School Program in Sierra Leone

In 2009, the Trinity Jubilee Foundation assisted CAUSE Canada to construct a new school building in Sulimania, a small agricultural village located in the remote northern province of Sierra Leone. We would like to continue the partnership between the Trinity Jubilee Foundation and this small, needy community during 2011.

One of the principle ways for families to break out of the cycle of poverty in this region is to educate their children. For this reason CAUSE Canada initiated an education-based child sponsorship program called CAUSE Kids in April 2006. For the 2011 school year, TJF would like to assist with meeting the needs of 100 children attending the Sulimania School. The funds requested would assist with the following:

• Every student will receive breakfast, hot lunch, uniforms, shoes.
• The program will work with the teachers to upgrade their teaching skills and qualifications through workshops and distance education.
• Books and school supplies will be provided in order to increase the quality of education at the school.
• The sponsored children are an integral part of the community. For the child to thrive, the program must also improve the quality of life for the entire community. CAUSE works with the children’s mothers by providing opportunities for them to attend classes in literacy, leadership and business. They are also given access to capital to improve and expand their small businesses, thereby increasing the family income.
• CAUSE Kids is inclusive. All students are served irrespective of their tribe, language, gender or religious affiliation. As a Christian organization we seek to share the love of Christ in tangible ways that bring honour to Him and consider it a privilege to serve the people of Sierra Leone.

Multi-Faith Housing Initiative, Ottawa

TJF’s second project in 2011 focuses on bringing more affordable housing to Ottawa through the program, the Multi-Faith Housing Initiative. There are over 9000 people on the City of Ottawa’s waiting list for social housing. The average time on the waiting list remains at more than 4 years. After paying rent , many households find themselves unable to afford the barest of essentials such as clothing, food, heat, transportation, and furniture. Spending more than 30% of a household’s gross income on housing alone is considered to be a situation which is unsustainable over time.

The Multi-Faith Housing Initiative strongly believes that faith communities have an important and unique role to play among those who seek solutions to the crisis in affordable housing in Canada. “We, as people of faith, from a variety of traditions hold ourselves and public officials responsible for the common good and accountable to the community for the provision of affordable housing to the most vulnerable in our society.”

Our TJF campaign for 2011 hopes to raise funds to support the Multi-Faith Housing Initiative and their goal of purchasing existing lower cost rental units and maintain them as affordable housing for lower-income households.