"Auto for Life" pays $ 35,050 in health sector
A year after its launch, the national program "Auto for life", the ARPAC Foundation, announces that it has paid $ 35,050 to organizations in the health sector. The goal of the program is to provide a source of additional income for organizations in this sector by offering to the public to donate their old vehicles.
Thus, the Foundation was able to raise a sum of $ 35,050 that the shares have some 21 partner organizations of the program. The amounts were verses organizations match an average donation of $ 197 per person. "We thank the people of his enthusiastic participation in the program. This success is the result of the generosity of consumers who deliberately renounces cash back to donate to a charity of their choice relates to the field of health.
The partner organizations are:
Quebec Lung Association
Foundation Center Cancerologie Charles-Bruneau
Health Care Foundation of Vaudreuil-Soulanges
Stroke of the eye
Stroke Foundation of heart
Mental Illness Foundation
Foundation of Stars
Foundation University Institute of Respiratory cancer research and Quebec
Health Haut-Richelieu Rouville Foundation
Charles-Lemoyne Hospital Foundation
Hotel-Dieu d'Arthabaska Foundation
CHUQ Foundation
Regional Hospital Foundation Saint-Jerome
Foundation Centre Hospitalier Granby
The Lighthouse Children and Families
House transplants Lyna Cyr
Marguerite House
Operation Enfant Soleil
Children dreams
Canadian society of multiple sclerosis
SOLICAN Lac St-Jean Est (Hospice Alma)
"The ARPAC Foundation wanted to have as many partners as possible. In this way, the program participant has the choice of the cause he wants to support, such as cancer research, lung disease or research on serious diseases suffered by children, "says Robitaille.
Participate in Auto for Life program is very simple, just take the following four steps:
Click Donate Site www.autopourlavie.ca or contact number 1-855 283-2722;
Choose a partner organization that the value of the vehicle will be provided;
Enter the information about the vehicle and its coordinates;
Make an appointment to collect the car.
The participant can either bring their car to a more close to home member recycler ARPAC or towed for free if it is no longer functional. "By offering his old vehicle, the participant will have the selected organization a donation ranging from $ 150 to $ 500 depending on the year of the car," concluded Mr. Robitaille.
In Quebec, it is nearly 400,000 vehicles that come off the road each year. Members ARPAC Foundation already recycle much through their marked presence throughout the country but also through ad hoc programs with manufacturers of vehicles. The Foundation wishes with this campaign recover most of these cars and to benefit health organizations.
Since its inception in 1995, the Foundation helps ARPAC has people living in difficult situations by supporting both a sector organizations of health, humanitarian and educational projects. For a year, she chose to concentrate its health by creating the Auto program for life.
ARPAC, the Recycling Association of pieces of cars and trucks, is a grouping of 83 recyclers, spread everywhere through the Quebec and is characterized by the maintenance of a professional activity according to the highest standards of quality Service and distribution of recycled parts guarantees. Member ARPAC are companies known for their adherence to a strict code of ethics and application of environmentally responsible business practices. Finally, ARPAC also working with the police to combat the theft and fencing of parts for cars and trucks.
