Fundraising?

As you can see from the title for this post the success of my goal to raise donations for the organizations that support mothers who have lost infant children is questionable.  In my naivety I thought the enormity of the challenge that I had set myself as a 78 year old would attract a large following, perhaps even going viral.  It seems that didn't happen.  The result has been a trickle of donations that were received and linked to Hazel's Heroes.  Perhaps more donations are on the way from people who are still following this blog.  If I were to set a dollar value for the goal I would like to achieve it would be $100.000 and, at the moment, it seems donations so far have reached approximately 1% of that goal.  So, with the optimism of an old fool, I will provide the information giving instructions for how to donate and hope that 99,000 donors will all donate $1.00 to either Hazel's Heroes or the Lullaby Trust.

Donating from Canada and the UK
Donations to either Hazel's Heroes or SIDS Calgary can be made in several ways.

• You can donate by eTransfer to hazels.heroes.society@gmail.com   If required use the password HAZELROSE

• To receive a tax receipt, you can pay online through the SIDS Calgary Society website.    NOTE: Please write a message in the field required specifying that your donation is going towards Hazel's Heroes Society.
• Cheques can be mailed to  P.O. Box 50087, Marlborough Postal Outlet, Calgary , AB  T2A 7P1  with "Hazel's Heroes"  written on the memo line and an official tax receipt will be issued.​

Donations for the UK
For those who have no connection to my family or to Canada I have arranged a connection with The Lullaby Trust, an organization whose purpose is:

• To reduce the incidence of SIDS in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• To reduce and prevent where possible the unexpected deaths of babies and young children.
• To continue to fund and instigate research into both the causes and prevention of SIDS and unexpected deaths of babies and young children
• To provide evidence based advice to parents to maximize the life chances and health of their babies and young children
• To provide evidence based knowledge to professionals, policy makers and the media to reduce the rate of unexpected deaths of babies and young children and promote child health​

Donations can be made to the Lullaby Trust by going to:   https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/support-us/ways-to-donate/

For those who wanted to gamble and donate an amount for every kilometre that I travelled, an independent source, Mike Donnelly, measured the distance as 422.6km.  More about Mike when I post a review of all aspects of my North Saskatchewan River travels.