Community
Every year, the Femtech team rolls up its collective sleeves to give back to the Global Community. Femtech joins Canada’s largest annual event, The World Partnership Walk, to increase awareness & fund raise to fight Global poverty.
The Walk is held in nine cities across Canada where corporate, individual and team supporters and volunteers have collectively helped to raise more than $50 million in support of international development initiatives, making it the largest and most successful event of its kind in Canada. All funds raised by the World Partnership Walk (100%) go directly to international development initiatives supported by Aga Khan Foundation Canada, a private, non-denominational, Canadian development agency, – not one cent is spent on administration. These funds support meaningful projects identified and implemented by local communities – projects that revitalize a rural economy, ensure clean water and sanitation, strengthen community-based organizations and educate new generations of girls and women. Funds raised by the Walk also help AKFC to leverage additional support from major donors like the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) .
In 2010 nearly 40,000 Canadians came together to raise close to $6 million.
Now in its 27th year, the Walk is organized by volunteers in ten cities across Canada, and attracts tens of thousands of Canadians united in a common effort to bring hope and renewal to some of the poorest communities in the world. Join us this year and help us get closer to ensuring every man, woman, and child is fed, not by simply giving them a fish, but by teaching them to fish. I invite you to make a donation online by visiting Femtech's World Partnership Walk web page. An electronic tax receipt will be emailed to you within 2-3 business days.
Need more convincing? Here's a 4-part documentary done by A-Chanel News on the role of the Aga Khan Foundation and the World Partnership Walk.