Montreal, December 21, 2022 – The Caisse Desjardins de Mercier-Est-Anjou is pleased to announce the projects selected for the program Illuminer la vie des gens. This initiative has made it possible to distribute a total of $22,500 to local organizations that had submitted a project of theirs for consideration earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n
Projects with promise<\/strong> Magasin-Partage Mercier-Est\/Saint-Fran\u00e7ois d’Assises – $10,000<\/u> Op\u00e9ration surveillance Anjou – $5,000<\/u> Service d’aide communautaire Anjou – $5,000<\/u> Le Frigo de l’Est – $2,500 (Employees\u2019 Favourite Award)<\/u> Illuminating People’s Lives: About Us<\/strong> \u201cWe would like to thank all the organizations that applied and all the many community members who submitted their projects, as well as our own employees, who saw what great initiatives were out there and who had some difficult choices to make. We are very fortunate and grateful to be part of a neighbourhood with such valued residents and such a rich social fabric,\u201d said Dominique Ra\u00eeche, General Manager of the Caisse.<\/em><\/p>\n\n About Caisse Desjardins, Mercier-Est-Anjou<\/u> For more information:<\/strong> Montreal, December 21, 2022 – The Caisse Desjardins de Mercier-Est-Anjou is pleased to announce the projects selected for the program…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe following four organizations stood out for their projects that mobilized the community. The Caisse is very proud to recognize their contribution and offer them these respective donations:<\/p>\n\n
\nMagasin-Partage has a major impact on its neighbourhood by providing food aid to those who are in greatest need. At the beginning of the school year, 130 families received a grocery basket and 255 backpacks of school supplies. Last winter, they distributed 1,516 baskets providing winter assistance. Magasin-Partage will use this donation to continue its mission of “alleviating hunger, to better nourish hope.”<\/p>\n\n
\nAnjou has the highest proportion of senior citizens, making up 22% of the borough\u2019s population. Throughout the pandemic, approximately 10,000 seniors felt the adverse effects of isolation. This project mobilizes that demographic community around activities that help to break through their isolation, as well as preventing mistreatment and abuse of all kinds and enhancing seniors\u2019 agency and well-being. The services offered by Op\u00e9ration surveillance Anjou are adapted to “developing and highlighting seniors\u2019 leadership in the borough.”<\/p>\n\n
\nA few years ago, SAC Anjou put together a seniors’ comedy troupe. The project offers a forum to address the various topics that have a direct effect on seniors, and through which they can develop their ideas and take part in a creative process. The aim of the project is to record their creative journey in writing and mount it on stage, sharing their realities and their stories. Creative writing allows seniors to \u201cdiscover and explore another art form, another path of self-expression.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\nInspired by concern for youngsters\u2019 well-being, this organization delivers lunches to two neighbourhood schools for those students who are most at risk due to food insecurity situations. This year, 50 children will have access to a healthy and diversified diet at school, five days a week. Le Frigo is setting up a pilot project: \u201cto help achieve the food security required to ensure children\u2019s development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\nIlluminer la vie des gens is an initiative established up by the Caisse Desjardins in Mercier-Est-Anjou. It invites local organizations to submit their projects to the Caisse. The selected projects then share a total of $22,500 in donations. This contribution is made possible by the Community Development Fund, which is financed by decision of the members at the general assembly to direct a portion of the surplus earnings reserved for dividends towards investment in the community.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\nWith total assets of $1.5 billion, Caisse Desjardins Mercier-Est-Anjou contributes to the economic and social development of its 43,475 members and the community in which it operates. It offers the full range of Desjardins Group products and services, of which it is an integral part. As the largest cooperative financial group in Canada, Desjardins Group is recognized as one of the most solid financial institutions in the world and as an exceptional corporate citizen.<\/p>\n\n
\nPascale Cadieux
\nDirector, Human Resources and Communications
\n(514) 351-1916, extension 7251301
\npascale.v.cadieux@desjardins.com
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