TOMA Foundation for Burned Children - About Us

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The

Foundation for

is a Canadian federally registered, incorporated not for profit charity that is committed to bringing concrete and material help to burned kids. Founded in 1997,

has fast become a major player in the fight against burns to children.

What does "" stand for ?

The name "" came from combining two children's names. "TO" comes from the name "Tommy", the twelve old grandson of the Foundation's Secretary Treasurer and co-founding Director, François Sourdif.

The "MA" part of "" is from the name "Marie" who is the fourteen year-old goddaughter of Gilles Mercier, President and co-founding Director.

In the past twelve months has reached over 150,000 people with its prevention, burn education and fundraising events, tables, community activities, presentations and awareness sessions.

Dedicated to serving the varied needs of burned children, works in solidarity and complementarily with any organization helping burned kids. The Foundation is bringing timely concrete and material help to children in the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec and soon in New Brunswick by collaborating with CHEO (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario) in Ottawa, Ste-Justine, Villa Medica and Montreal Children's Hospitals in Montreal and the Hamilton General Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre and Branford Landsdowne Children's Centre.

Joint activities with various Fire Departments, including Fire Prevention events in Ontario with the Burlington, Barrie, Brantford, Brockville, Kanata, Nepean, Ottawa, Huntsville, Woodstock, Barrie and London Fire Departments/Services and in Quebec with the Gatineau and Rimouski Fire Services as well as involvement in such activities as the Kitchener-Waterloo and St. Thomas Musters with the Cambridge and Kitchener-Waterloo and St. Thomas Fire Departments, Armed Forces Day at Camp Borden, the Erin Fire Department Manufacturers Night, and Burlington FD Open House combined with community events such as the Cambridge Fall Fair, Alliston Potato Festival through the courtesy of New Tecumseh Fire Department allow to provide burned children with a variety of support such as ergo-therapeutic face masks, therapeutic toys, pressure garments, silicone and gel pads, electronic equipment and multi-media computers with free unlimited internet access aimed at breaking the burned child's psychological barrier in and out of hospital.

As the Foundation for continues to actively expand across Canada it avidly seeks funding and timely donations from individuals and corporate sponsors to pursue special events, elaborate its burned child sponsoring program, work on fire prevention programs aimed at children, collaborate in the distribution of fire and burn prevention literature through its in-house business information and fund raising activities and other related projects.

Support from all sources of the community at large is pivotal to the ongoing success of .

The Foundation for is a federally registered, not for profit Charity and is also registered with the Ontario Public Trustee's Office and with the Compliance Department of the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations of the Government of Ontario.