B.C. steps up with over $2.57 million in donations for CKNW Kids’ fund

British Columbians were live with the tone of giving connected Tuesday, keeping operators engaged arsenic they chipped successful to assistance marque different palmy CKNW Pledge Day.

The yearly radiothon raised much than $2.57 cardinal for the CKNW Kids’ Fund’s invaluable work.

That fig covers donations collected by the extremity of on-air fundraising astatine 6 p.m., but donors tin inactive contribute online until midnight.

“We are truthful grateful for the generosity of this assemblage and our listeners,” said 980 CKNW manager of speech and endowment and CKNW Kids’ Fund committee subordinate Kathryn Stewart.

“It is an implicit privilege to big the 47th yearly Pledge Day and to enactment the indispensable enactment of the Kids’ Fund.”

The CKNW Kids’ Fund was archetypal launched successful 1944, arsenic a mode to rise wealth for gifts for children astatine New Westminster’s Loyal Protestant Home orphanage. At the time, the foundation was known arsenic the CKNW Orphans’ Fund.

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The charity’s mandate has expanded vastly successful the 80 years since, increasing to connection enactment for kids with physical, intelligence and societal challenges each implicit B.C.

Your donations assistance screen everything from mobility immunodeficiency and aesculapian instrumentality to therapies, acquisition supports and summertime camps.

The money is present 1 of B.C.’s largest sources providing nonstop backing to assistance children and families successful need.