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Local women’s shelter helped by Royal LePage

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Pictured – Tamera Aspell, Mark Pankratz, Beth Garrish, Ann Hayes, Nita Neufield, Brian Wensley, Tony Munday & Pat Evans

Royal LePage is the only Canadian real estate company with its own charitable foundation. The Royal LePage Shelter Foundation is Canada’s largest public foundation dedicated exclusively to funding women’s shelters and violence prevention programs.

Recently, Royal Lepage – South Country Realty presented the Desert Sun Counselling & Resource Centre with a cheque in the amount of $3,061.80 representing the fundraising efforts from the 2012 Gingerbread House Competition and the 2013 National Garage Sale. 100% of the monies raised in our community stays in our community helping women and children in need.

The Gingerbread house Competition and Silent Auction is an annual event and something South Country Realty does on their own.  They co-ordinate it with the Oliver Light-up festivities and  ask people to enter & donate a gingerbread house to be judged by public voting and ultimately bid on to raise funds for the Shelter Foundation. This past 2012 Christmas Competition and Silent Auction raised $755.00 for the Shelter Foundation.

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Pictured – Patrick Somerville – Oliver Fire Department presenting Ann Hayes with cheque for $500 for purchase of Gingerbread House

This year Royal Lepage offices across Canada were thrilled to raise more than $365,000 at the 5th Annual National Garage Sale for Shelter. On May 11, 2013 Royal Lepage – South Country Realty raised $2,306.80.  These funds stay in our community and go directly to helping women and children of Oliver through the Desert Sun Counselling Centre.

The Women’s Shelter offers free, safe, confidential counselling and support services, and short term housing to women and children who have experienced relationship abuse, who have been or  are being victimized by threats, intimidation, physical violence or emotional/verbal abuse by their partner.

South Country Realty is proud to support Desert Sun Counselling and Resource Centre and will continue to provide in-kind goods to benefit the women and children residing in our local shelter.