Vickie Rennie Memorial Fund
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It is with tremendous sadness that we learned that Vickie Rennie, BWAN’s (Bleecker/Wellesley Activity Network) fearless leader and brightest beacon of light passed away on July 22, 2020.
Vickie founded BWAN over thirty years ago after recognizing how vulnerable and isolated seniors and the disabled were in the St. James Town community. What started as a quarterly afternoon tea party evolved into a multi-program agency anchored by a twice-a-month lunch club in the Breakfast Room of 200 Wellesley Street East. Prior to the pandemic, each and every month Vickie and her team of volunteers prepared delicious healthy meals for up to 100 people and sent them home with full tummies and happy memories of meals shared, not to mention often with leftovers and a full bag of fresh veggie produce in-hand. When COVID-19 hit early this year Vickie set her own health risks aside and quickly got down to transforming her lunch club into a delivery-based program to make sure her Seniors were well cared for and well nourished.
Vickie’s vision was to improve the health, well-being, quality of life and personal development of the most vulnerable residents of the community and she was razor focused on making sure that happened.
While we are all left reeling by the news of her death we know all too well that Vickie would not want us to despair for long. She would want us to get down to business and make sure ‘her Seniors’ were being cared for and looked after.
With the financial assets of the BWAN non-profit agency now temporarily frozen we have created this GoFundMe campaign so that her team of volunteers can quickly return to the twice-a-month meals starting on Tuesday August 11, 2020.
We ask that you make a donation to the Vickie Rennie Memorial Fund so we can continue her good work in the short-term while longer term succession plans for her charity are being worked out.
RIP Vickie, we promise we will do our very best to continue your legacy and take care of your Seniors.
Please feel free to enjoy this video which was made for her as a gift of gratitude in 2017 for all she had done for the Seniors community -
For the LoVE of Vickie
Vickie founded BWAN over thirty years ago after recognizing how vulnerable and isolated seniors and the disabled were in the St. James Town community. What started as a quarterly afternoon tea party evolved into a multi-program agency anchored by a twice-a-month lunch club in the Breakfast Room of 200 Wellesley Street East. Prior to the pandemic, each and every month Vickie and her team of volunteers prepared delicious healthy meals for up to 100 people and sent them home with full tummies and happy memories of meals shared, not to mention often with leftovers and a full bag of fresh veggie produce in-hand. When COVID-19 hit early this year Vickie set her own health risks aside and quickly got down to transforming her lunch club into a delivery-based program to make sure her Seniors were well cared for and well nourished.
Vickie’s vision was to improve the health, well-being, quality of life and personal development of the most vulnerable residents of the community and she was razor focused on making sure that happened.
While we are all left reeling by the news of her death we know all too well that Vickie would not want us to despair for long. She would want us to get down to business and make sure ‘her Seniors’ were being cared for and looked after.
With the financial assets of the BWAN non-profit agency now temporarily frozen we have created this GoFundMe campaign so that her team of volunteers can quickly return to the twice-a-month meals starting on Tuesday August 11, 2020.
We ask that you make a donation to the Vickie Rennie Memorial Fund so we can continue her good work in the short-term while longer term succession plans for her charity are being worked out.
RIP Vickie, we promise we will do our very best to continue your legacy and take care of your Seniors.
Please feel free to enjoy this video which was made for her as a gift of gratitude in 2017 for all she had done for the Seniors community -
For the LoVE of Vickie
Organizer
Kim Machado
Organizer
Toronto, ON