WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO
  • The Bravery Foundation is a Canadian CRA registered charity located in Kelowna, BC
  • We provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine and support displaced Ukrainians, refugees and volunteers serving in Ukraine ​
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COMMUNITY, CONTRIBUTION, CONNECTION
UPDATE: JANUARY 1, 2023
Ivanka and the children had a wonderful Christmas. They went sledding at one of the local hills and celebrated their first New Year in Canada. Ivanka is now fully independent, living on her own, working full time and supporting her two children. Ivanka's sister-in-law has made her way safely to Canada and is living with Ivanka and the children now.  Maksym and Natalia enjoy the school they are enrolled in and have made lots of new friends. Thank you Kelowna for welcoming our Ukrainian family with open arms and hearts!

​UPDATE: APRIL 23, 2022
Maksym and Natalia have started school and are loving it. Less than a week at their new school, the two children have made friends in their class and wake up in the mornings excited for the new day, Kelowna Capital News reporter Jacqueline Gelineau reports. 
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OUR FAMILY​
​​The Bravery Foundation helped the first displaced Ukrainian family settle in Kelowna and we encourage others in our community to do the same. Maksym is 9 years old and his sister Natalia is 6. Ivanka their mother fled Ukraine in early March of 2022 and arrived in Kelowna at the beginning of April 2022. Ivanka had been staying with a friend of a friend in Prague in a tiny one bedroom apartment that she and the children shared with 12 other people before they came to Canada. Nina Typusiak, a family member and long term Kelowna resident, helped Ivanka obtain the appropriate papers to enter Canada and let them live in her home until they were ready to move out on their own. 


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OUR COMMUNITY 
Nina, seen in the below photo with one of her daughters and husband, is taking on a new role to help her Ukrainian relatives. She's raised funds to pay for their airfare to fly to Kelowna, but needed help setting them up in Kelowna, which is where the Bravery Foundation stepped in.

Through generous donations from the Okanagan community, Nina and our foundation were able to help Ivanka and the children get clothes, furniture, toys and so much more. We connected to them to the greater Ukrainian community and assisted in finding them a local church, employment and schooling for the kids. It was a team effort for sure, and we are thankful to everyone who helped!
Many of you will know Nina, an early childhood educator and long term resident of Kelowna. Known as 'Teacher Nina' to many kids in the Okanagan over the past 23 years, including our Founder's children. Nina facilitated a parent participation preschool program through the City of Kelowna for many years. She also taught at the Waldorf school, YMCA, Clubhouse, and Stepping Stones Preschool. Today, Teacher Nina is a Métis Pedagogist with Métis Nation British Columbia.
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Vision: Freedom for ALL!
Mission: We Support Refugees & Displaced People
Mandate: People, Planet, Protect
Values: Serve, Educate, Respect
Constitutional Charitable Purposes
  1. To relieve poverty by providing necessities of life, including food, clean water, clothing, medical supplies, medicine, protective gear and/or shelter to victims of war in Ukraine.
  2. To relieve poverty by providing necessities of life, including food, clean water, clothing, protective gear and/or shelter to needy immigrants and Ukrainian refugees and their families as well as offering financial assistance necessary for their relocation and settling in Canada and referring them to the appropriate resources, if necessary.
  3. To relieve poverty by providing financial assistance, to be used for necessities of life, to poor families of volunteers who quit their jobs to travel to Ukraine to help victims of war.
  4. To provide education, counseling and other support services to needy immigrants and Ukrainian refugees including job search programs, translation services, accompaniment and referral service during administrative procedures and information programs on Canadian culture and life in Canada.

Charitable Status 
  1. Status: Registered
  2. Type of Qualified Donee: Charity
  3. Designation: Private Foundation
  4. Charity Type: Relief of Poverty
  5. Category: Organizations Relieving Poverty
  6. Charitable Tax Number: 742323207 RR0001
  7. BC Incorporation Number: S0076173​

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​The user assumes all responsibility and risk for the use of our website and the internet generally. We accept no liability or responsibility to any person as a consequence of any reliance upon the information contained in this site. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall anyone involved in creating or maintaining this website be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or loss profits that result from the use or inability to use the website and/or any other websites which are linked to this site. Nor shall they be liable for any such damages including, but not limited to, reliance by a member or visitor on any information obtained via the website; or that results from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, viruses, errors, defects, or failure of performance, communications failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access. States or Countries which do not allow some or all of the above limitations of liability, liability shall be limited to the greatest extent allowed by law. We not accept any liability through association with other groups or organizations. The Bravery Foundation is not a social welfare agency, and we will not manage, advise or act in such a manner. We are strictly connecting parties to independently explore commonalities with one another. The Bravery Foundation does not accept any liability or responsibility to any person, business or association as a consequence of any reliance upon the information contained in an email, on our website or other means of communication.

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