March is Easter Seals Month! An urgent call for public support.

Easter Seals Nova Scotia launches “March is Easter Seals Month” the first of our new annual fundraising and awareness campaigns across Nova Scotia called “March is Easter Seals Month.”  Funds raised throughout this campaign that runs until Easter, will help Nova Scotians with physical disabilities in many essential ways.

The commencement of this year’s event marks an urgent call for public support for Easter Seals programs and services in 2010. Increased program demands are exceeding available funding. We need public support. We need your help.

How can you help?
Easter Seals Nova Scotia needs to be proactive and fill this gap between meeting our communities’ needs and having the means to do so, by demonstrating to Nova Scotians that this must be a shared responsibility.

There are many ways to get involved and to give:

• Easter Seals’ Paper Egg campaign: March 8 to April 4^th Purchase an “egg” for $2 at participating stores across Nova Scotia: Lawtons, TB!S, Price Chopper, Money Mart, The UPS Store, Sylvan Learning Centres, New Leaf Cafes, Sobeys  and Walmart (starting March 25). Paper Eggs will also be sold in the Mic Mac Mall at Bentley Leather, Bombay Company, Frame It, Gap, and Orange Julius.
• Easter Seal’s Giant Easter Egg Hunt! Saturday April 3 from 9-10am, for $5 each, children can participate in the largest Easter Egg Hunt in Atlantic Canada, held indoors at the Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth.  Register online at www.easterseals.ns.ca.
• Easter Seals’ Spring Mail Campaign Donations can be directed through the mail in response to the Easter Seals’ spring-time mail campaign.
• Easter Seals Nova Scotia online Donations can be made online at www.easterseals.ns.ca.
• Easter Seals Nova Scotia’s upcoming events Individuals, families & teams can register for exciting community events to raise money for Easter Seals. Visit www.easterseals.ns.ca for information about upcoming summer and fall events: Zip Zone (Rappelling off the Macdonald Bridge), Drop Zone (Rappelling off 1801 Hollis Street CREIT Building), and the Adventure Challenge (a Geo-Cache race!)

Why give to Easter Seals Nova Scotia?
Easter Seals Nova Scotia is a provincial charity where all money raised through fundraising events in the province stays in Nova Scotia directly helping individuals and families in need. Easter Seals Nova Scotia works in collaboration with the government of Nova Scotia to ensure that no family gets left behind regardless of annual income.

Donations made to Easter Seals Nova Scotia help families and individuals with physical disabilities afford wheelchairs and other assistive equipment; attend accessible summer camps and recreation programs; and participate in adult day programs, work training and community employment.

Easter Seals Nova Scotia is a registered provincial charity. Charitable tax receipts are issued where applicable.