2024 Caring Hearts Ottawa Card Drive
was a huge success!
We received 4,524 cards (3,452 English / 1,072 French) from more than 50 volunteer individuals and groups.
We delivered cards to 26 Long Term Care homes that accepted our offer to receive cards for their residents.
A heartfelt THANK YOU to all participants.
What is the Caring Hearts Card Drive?
The Caring Hearts Card Drive is a crafting community project aimed at providing holiday cards to the elderly living in long term care homes, so they know they still matter and are not forgotten. The drive was started in the US in 2009 but quickly spread across the world. Card makers in the Ottawa area took up the torch in 2017 - creating and distributing hundreds (actually thousands) of A2 (4.25 x 5.5”) cards each year.
After a break during COVID, dozens of volunteer card makers have kept the tradition alive since 2021. Long term care homes in our area have told us the residents very much like to receive holiday wishes so we are participating again in 2024.
Interested in participating? Send an email to info@caroletomdesign.com and we will send you complete instructions, as well as a form for providing your contact information. Whether you are planning to make 1 card or 100 cards - ALL cards are welcome.
Caring Hearts cards are really appreciated.
" Greetings! I had the pleasure of passing out your beautiful and festive cards to the patients on the Ottawa Hospital floors at West End Villa. Your cards brought much cheer and colourful comfort to our patients. So kind of you, card makers, to think of others in such a special way. Many thanks for your generous efforts, creativity and care."
Deborah, Activity Department, West End Villa
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