Angel Campaign
We believe in Angels. And so do the families in our community that rely on the Rotary Home’s respite services. To these families, you, the donors, are angels for making it possible for them to enjoy a break from time to time from the demanding routine of caring for their loved ones with severe disabilities.
The children and young adults who visit the Home are also little Angels who despite their disabilities bring incredible joy and love to their families. That is why year the staff of the Ottawa Rotary Home select one of our children or young adults to be the Rotary Home Angel for the coming year.* The Angel and their family act as Rotary Home representatives for their reigning year sharing their unique story with others.
Angel Campaign 2011
As the holiday season rapidly approaches, we all become increasingly consumed with activities of decorating, gift purchases, festive parties and travel plans. While it is a very busy time of year, it is also a traditional time of giving and sharing... and that is my reason for contacting you.
At the Ottawa Rotary Home, we are reminded - every day - of the demanding daily routines that are required of families caring for an adult or child with a physical disability. These families lovingly care for their family members, but from time to time they just need a break... read more.
Angel Campaign 2010
It’s the middle of the night and you are awakened by piercing cries coming through the baby monitor lying next to you. You rub your tired eyes, throw back the warm, cozy covers and get up. As you feel your way down the darkened hall to your daughter’s room, you wonder if she needs to be changed, if she’s hungry or thirsty and needs a snack, or if she just needs to be comforted and helped back to sleep.
If you are a parent, you can relate to the scenario above, but what if your child was twenty-two, and you still needed that baby monitor, still woke up in the middle of the night to change, feed, or soothe him or her?
This is the reality for many families caring for an adult child with a physical disability. These families lovingly care for their children, but sometimes… read more.
Angel Campaign 2009
Home for the Holidays... It is a phrase brings a different image to each of us... joyous childhood memories retold over a shared meal, the house warm with the smell of roasting turkey and sugar cookies or turning up on the doorstep when Mom and Dad were sure that they’d not see you this year. At The Ottawa Rotary Home, we want our family reunited too... read more
Angel Campaign 2008
We all have that person in our lives who makes us laugh when we thought it was beyond us, that folds us into their arms to comfort and listens without judgment. Sometimes, friends, family or colleagues give a gift of self so extraordinary that it humbles us. I want to tell you a story about such a group of people... read more
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"Brett has been a part of the Rotary Home family or, perhaps I should say, the Rotary Home has been a huge and very important part of our family, for over eleven years. Now, I cannot imagine our lives without the wonderful, caring staff.
Please support the Angel Campaign. Keep Brett and our family, along with the other Rotary Home children, smiling. Our families would be incomplete without the love of the Rotary Home family." |
Read more about Brett
* Angels are chosen at random from the children and young adults who are currently registered with The Ottawa Rotary Home.