We are in the process of revamping our website and adding updates for our current and upcoming projects.
Stay tuned!

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and a happy new year!
From all of us at End Poverty Now

We are now selling adorable handmade penguin ornaments, made by our HR Officer, Stephanie! They are only $2 each, in blue or red, and 100% of profits goes towards our Grassroots Projects partner, the Garhwal English Medium School (GEMS) in India!

How to Order

• If you live downtown Montreal, contact Jen at: [email protected]
• If you live in the Mile End / Outremont / Little Italy / Plateau area, get in touch with me (Cindy) at: [email protected]

…and we’ll find a way of delivering these to you!

Thank you for your support!

Looking to add that perfect extra touch to your holiday gifts?
We’ve got something for you!

Beautiful 100% Natural Goats Milk Soaps
made by community members of Sainji village, India

End Poverty Now is happy to be fundraising for our wonderful Grassroots Project partner, the Garhwal English Medium School (GEMS) of Sainji, India. If one of your goals is to make responsible consumer choices this holiday, this product is for you!

ABOUT THE SOAPS

• All-natural soap made from goats milk!
• Great for dry and sensitive skin!
• Rich in vitamins and contains alpha-hydoxyl acids!
• Only $3.50 (CAD) each!

More info here.

Lori, Kunwar, and the kids at GEMS

THE CAUSE

Lori and Kunwar started the Garhwal English Medium School (GEMS) to give the children of Sainji a better future.  Now they have started local industries like goats milk soap-making to help create reliable models of income for their students’ parents.  The making of these soaps:

• Creates jobs for students’ parents
• Provides sustainable model of income and skills-training to local citizens
• 100% of profits goes towards covering costs of the school

These soaps were mailed to us from Lori and Kunwar, directly from Sainji, India.

HOW TO ORDER

Soaps are only $3.50 (CAD) each!

Drop-Off – If you live in Montreal, we can drop them off where it’s convenient for you! Just get in touch with me (Cindy) at [email protected] and let me know how many you’d like.

Order Online – Order now and we’ll ship them to you the day of, or the day after! (Please note that shipping and packaging costs are not included in the $3.50 price.) Click below to order now!

IMPORTANT NOTE: As a result of customs examinations during shipping from India to Canada, most of the soap packaging have been slightly ripped and bent. We apologize in advance for the tarnished boxes and hope you understand! Also, If you don’t mind purchasing the soaps with the most tarnished boxes (e.g., if they are not gifts), please let us know!  Thank you very much.

Scents

If you’d like to request specific scents, we can try to accommodate!  Just let us know which ones you’d like (for online orders: by clicking on “Leave any scents requests below” when checking out).  Some of these may run out quicker than others: (1) Lavender Mint, (2) Lavender Rose, (3) Cinnamon Rose, (4) Cinnamon Clove, (5) Tulsi (basil), (6) Lemongrass, (7) Jasmine Honey Sold Out!, (8) Geranium Rose

Thank you for your generosity!

What does Sarvodaya mean?

More questions? Email me: [email protected]!

Cindy

Hi everyone!  Hope you’ve all been savouring the fall weather, wherever you may be.  This is what Montreal has granted us with these past few months:

Anyway, here’s what’s new at EPN!

New Vision, Mission, and Slogan

This season, with the help of all of our members, we revised our mission statement, and added a vision statement as well as a slogan.  We feel that this has helped clarify our desired long-term goals.  Check out our new vision and mission statements here!  As for our slogan, it will be making an appearance on our new printed materials and website soon:  Give, Grow, Sustain. 

New Director of Education, Shatyra!

We’d like to give a warm welcome to our new Director of Education, Shatyra Williams!  Shatyra has a background in adult education and women’s advocacy, and is full of great energy!  She has already begun discussing wonderful educational initiative ideas with us.  You can read more about Shatyra here.

Shatyra Williams, our new Director of Education

Indiegogo Campaign Results

Once again, we’d like to thank everyone who donated to our recent Indiegogo Campaign.  We were able to surpass our goal and raise $1,170(CAD) which has allowed us to pay off our government fees, pay for our mailbox for two years, order new banners for our chapters’ fundraising events, and sign on a new Grassroots Project in India.  We are so grateful of all of your support.

New Grassroots Project: Soap- and Candle-Making in India

End Poverty Now is excited to have partnered once again with the Garhwal Organization for Uplifting the Needy (GOUN) / Garhwal English Medium School (GEMS) for a new Grassroots Project joint venture: goats milk soap- and candle-making in Sainji, India.  Lori and Kunwar of GEMS established small local industries in soap- and candle-making to help empower local citizens while creating sustainable models of income.  We will be giving more information and updates on the project here.  Learn more about GEMS at www.gems-school.org and show your support by “Liking” their Facebook page!

Kids of GEMS with soaps!
(photo from www.gems-school.org)

New Chapter Banners!

We’ve ordered new banners for our chapters to use at their fundraising events!  The funds for these came from your kind donations toward our Indiegogo Campaign.  The banner was designed by our talented Graphic Design Officer, Laura Czornobaj, and will exhibit EPN’s new image and slogan.  We’ll be sure to show them in use in our future updates!

Thanks for checking up on us!  ‘Til next time,
Cindy