TORONTO, Dec. 05, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Remembrance Day, the Sunwing Foundation proudly honoured the country’s servicemen and women with a special collection on board Sunwing Airlines; raising $5000 for the Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Fund. Chief Operating Officer, Andrew Dawson, met with local veteran, Leslie Lefeuvre, from the Royal Canadian Legion at the Sunwing offices in Toronto to pass on the donation on November 28th.
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Dawson explained that the funds had been raised via the Sunwing Airlines spare change program which invites customers to donate unused spare change in any currency at the end of their vacation to the Sunwing Foundation. (A charitable initiative established by the Hunter family to support youth development projects in destinations served by the travel company, the Sunwing Foundation passes on 100% of all donations raised to local charity projects, as well as matching funds with a donation equivalent to the total value of the funds raised each year.)
On November 11th, the Sunwing Foundation gave all donations made (and doubled the total amount raised by adding a donation of their own) to the Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Fund.
The money will support the Royal Canadian Legion in maintaining and improving services, as well as providing financial assistance to Canadian Armed Forces members, veterans, or their family members who are in financial distress.
For more information on the projects undertaken by the Sunwing Foundation, visit www.sunwingfoundation.com
About Sunwing Foundation
A charitable initiative established by the Hunter family, the Sunwing Foundation reflects the Sunwing Travel Group’s enduring commitment to the support and development of youth in the communities where it operates in the form of project funding or the transport of humanitarian aid. The Sunwing Foundation takes no administration fees and matches on 100% of the charitable donations it raises through the airline’s spare change program to the communities that need it the most, funding educational and skills development projects to provide a direct, impactful, and sustainable improvement to quality of life for years to come. Since its inception in 2015, the Sunwing Foundation has provided assistance to a number of community projects, most notably wholly funding the construction of the Spicy Hill Early Childhood Institution in Trelawny, Jamaica.
About Sunwing Travel Group
The largest integrated travel company in North America, Sunwing Travel Group is comprised of Sunwing Vacations and Signature Vacations, two of the leading leisure tour operators in Canada; Sunwing Airlines, Canada's premier leisure airline; SunwingJets, a luxury private jet charter service and Vacation Express, a growing tour operator in the United States together with the Group’s own travel retail businesses SellOffVacations.com and Luxe Destination Weddings. Blue Diamond Resorts is the Group’s hotel management company, an innovative organization that operates popular resort brands including Royalton Luxury Resorts, Memories Resorts & Spa and Starfish Hotels & Resorts across the Caribbean and Mexico; while NexusTours is a full-service destination management company offering affordably priced and reliable ground transportation, popular tours and excursions, as well as other travel management services.
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