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13
COMMUNITY GIVING
• 511 shoeboxes were filled with gifts for Operation Christmas
Child during the Christmas season. Volunteers from
WestJet helped pack the shoeboxes at the Operation
Christmas Child warehouse.
• Volunteers spent three days at the Mustard Seed Street
Ministry in Calgary helping those less fortunate.
Canadians Helping Canadians
We believe any amount of generosity can make a difference,
and our people are always happy to give their time and energy
toward helping where we can. WestJet donated more than
10,000 flights to charities across Canada in 2001. From
Comox, British Columbia, to Moncton, New Brunswick,
WestJet supported a variety of charities, including local
chapters of Lions Clubs, Duck’s Unlimited, Boys & Girls Clubs,
Kidney Foundation, The Canadian Cancer Society, Rotary
Clubs, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and Humane Shelters.
On a grand scale, WestJet supported Hope Air, a national
charitable organization that arranges free air transportation for
financially burdened Canadians in need of medical treatment
outside their communities. Hope Air provides this service
through the generous donation of flights on commercial,
corporate and private aircraft, and WestJet donated 150 trips
in 2001 to this worthy organization.
WestJetters across the country love to participate in their
communities. While WestJet provides our bases with
hundreds of trips for two to donate to local charities, our bases
have also taken the initiative to hold fundraisers to raise
money for their local charities. In 2001, the WestJetters at our
Comox base raised more than $4,000 to purchase equipment
for the Ship’s Point Volunteer Firefighters, $650 for the
Children's Hospital Foundation, $2,800 for the Village Park
School Library Fundraiser, and additional funds for the Fulfill a
Dream Charity and the Chemainus Theatre Education
Foundation.
Our Hamilton WestJetters volunteered with the Salvation
Army, filling and distributing Christmas baskets to low-income
families. As well, they raised money for an inner-city school’s
hot breakfast program, collected clothes for a women’s
shelter, and bought CFL tickets for foster children.
WestJetters in Abbotsford participated in the Police Challenge
Run and the Lions Club Putting Tournament, while our Grande
Prairie team donated time and money to the Queen Elizabeth
II Hospital Foundation Festival of Trees event.
2001 was another excellent year of community involvement
for WestJet, and our people are volunteering in greater
numbers every year. WestJet cares, and we look forward to a
future that offers more opportunities for our people to
contribute to the culture of both our organization and the
communities in which we operate.
We believe any amount of generosity can make
a difference, and our people are always happy
to give their time and energy toward helping
where we can.