This year’s garage sale of Royal LePage Landco Realty in London raised $6,040 for three local women’s shelters. Their team distributed $4,000 of the proceeds to Violence Against Women Services – Elgin County; $1,540 to the Women’s Community House of London; and the remaining $500 to Women’s Rural Resource Centre of Strathroy and Area. These donations will ensure that abused women and children have access to shelter, counseling, and emergency transportation to be removed from any violent situation they encounter.
Sarah Nethercott, Administration Manager with Royal LePage Landco Realty, explains the passion behind their office’s fundraising efforts:
Royal LePage Landco is a local business made up of community-oriented professionals who all recognize the importance of supporting local organizations in our area. Every day, our agents have the pleasure of helping their clients find the perfect home, whether it’s a first time homebuyer, a family looking to upgrade, seniors looking for a more accessible property, etc. There is so much excitement and joy during this process: the feeling of finding “the perfect home,” the anticipation of moving in, the care and dedication put into making that house a home. Unfortunately many women and children live in homes where they experience violence, abuse and fear everyday. Their house is not a home.
At Landco Realty, we are on a mission to put abuse out of commission, which is why we fundraise year-round for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation. Through the fundraising efforts of our agents and staff, we support local women’s shelters in London, St Thomas, and Strathroy, and enable them to continue providing the lifesaving services for women and children and education to the public that is so deperately needed. The women and children in these shelters not only need, but deserve, a safe, friendly place to call their home; and while the shelter is not a long term solution, the shelter also provides services to transition our fellow community members into safe and affordable housing so they can build what the rest of us enjoy everyday: a warm, safe, loving home of our own.
Pictured (left to right – bottom row): Liz Brown, Executive Director of Violence Against Women Services – Elgin County, Pauline Siefert, Alida Jordan, Sheri Lawrence, Laura Cheney, and Jeff Nethercott; (left to right – back row) Ed Batty, Marian Waterhouse, Chris Pincombe, Lorne Siefert, and Don Perry.
