The ETFO Humanity Fund
What is it?
The ETFO Humanity Fund uses the resources of ETFO members to support children and their teachers around the world, enriching their lives and the lives of their communities. The Stephen Lewis Foundation is the signature charity supported by the fund. Other organizations the fund supports include the CTF Trust Fund, Save the Children, War Child Canada, the Canadian Red Cross, Pueblito, and Global Medic, among others.
How does it work?
For most of its history, the Humanity Fund has been financed through payroll deductions by members. Each participating member has a dime a day—or $20 a year—deducted from his/her salary through automatic payroll deductions. These funds are then forwarded to the Humanity Fund by the member's school board.
The fund also receives individual donations from ETFO members, staff, and locals. In addition, a resolution was passed by delegates at the 2011 Annual Meeting to contribute $200,000 a year to the ETFO Humanity Fund.
The ETFO Humanity Fund is run by a board made up of members of the provincial executive, leaders from participating locals, and two rank-and-file members of ETFO.
ETFO Humanity Fund Application
Charities interested in requesting a donation from the ETFO Humanity Fund should complete this 
funding application.
If you wish to make any donations to the ETFO Humanity Fund please fill in this form.
Find Out More
Build the ETFO Humanity Fund. Talk to your local president. Talk to your colleagues. For more information, call the ETFO provincial office or read the Humanity Fund Pamphlet.
Humanity Fund Donations 2012
| Organization/Website |
Description |
| Arthur Fredericks Community Builders - www.afcb.ca |
The AFCB is a small organization based in eastern Ontario that works primarily in Mexico. |
| Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief - www.cpar.ca |
The Humanity Fund supported CPAR to fund a complete Rainwater Harvesting and Hygiene Project at a primary school in the Karatu District of Tanzania, benefiting more than 370 students, primarily girls. |
| Club Amick - www.clubamick.ca |
Club Amick is a project of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and the Ontario Library Association. It is a book club for First Nation children attending Grades K-6 in Ontario’s remote communities. |
| CODE - www.codecan.org |
The Humanity Fund, through CODE, supports Reading Tanzania, a program that provides schools and libraries with reading materials and literacy training for educators, as well as supporting the local production of books. |
| FH Canada - www.fhcanada.org |
The Humanity Fund supports an FH Canada program to construct classrooms in the Busekera, Rwanda, one of the poorest communities in that country. |
| Horizons of Friendship - www.horizons.ca |
The Humanity Fund supported a Horizons of Friendship project that works with marginalized Indigenous Mayan communities in Guatemala to improve access to intercultural bilingual education (Mayan/Spanish). |
| Jamaican Self Help - www.jshcanada.org |
Jamaican Self-Help is a small, Peterborough-based organization that supports education and community development in Jamaica. Our donation supports the St. Theresa’s Literacy Project. |
| Pencils for Kids - www.pencilsforkids.com |
Pencils for Kids is a volunteer-only organization that has partnered with Liboré in Niger, West Africa to provide school supplies and schools. |
| Plan Canada International Inc. - www.plancanada.ca |
The Humanity Fund supported the Plan Canada PAGES in Mali project, a project that provides primary school teacher training and school development. |
| Power to Be International - www.thepowertobe.org |
Power to Be International supports Canadian volunteers – teachers, community workers, and faculty of education students – teaching a literacy and leadership camp for underserved youth in western Jamaica and supported the construction of a classroom at a rural school. |
| Pueblito Canada - www.pueblito.org |
ETFO provided support to the myBEST program that provides students in the Atlantic region of Nicaragua with textbooks and learning aids through Pueblito Canada. |
| SchoolBOX - www.schoolbox.ca |
SchoolBOX is a small charity that works in Nicaragua. The project we fund distributes packages of education supplies to students and teachers in the El Sauce region of north-western Nicaragua. |
| Stephen Lewis Foundation - www.stephenlewisfoundation.org |
The Stephen Lewis Foundation is the ETFO Humanity Fund’s signature charity. The foundation was established to fight the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Since its founding the foundation has supported 300 community-based initiatives in 15 African countries. |
| World Literacy Canada - www.worldlit.ca |
World Literacy Canada uses literacy to fight poverty and advance the cause of social justice. It supports and delivers a range of community-based education projects in Canada, India, and Nepal. |