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We are a registered Charity with the goal to alleviate suffering and to demonstrate God’s love through giving.

07/11/2026

A quilt. A hand reached out. A van packed to the roof with supplies.

Three images of the same mission at different moments. One is what someone received. One is what connection looks like when you stop to make it. One is what it took to get there.

None of it happens without the people who give from a distance, trusting that it lands somewhere real.
It does.

Link in bio.

07/10/2026

Nobody planned that hug.
You can tell. His eyes are closed and he's laughing.

She's holding on. The woman behind them is smiling the way you smile when you're watching something true happen in front of you.

That's the centre of this image. Everything else — the group photos, the food deliveries, the little girl in pink, the volunteers unloading in the field — is what surrounds a moment like that. The work that makes the hug possible.

You don't give to an organization. You give to the conditions that make this kind of moment happen.

Link in bio.

07/09/2026

One of them is already smiling. The other hasn't opened it yet.

That second before a child unwraps a gift — the weight of it in their hands, the paper still intact — that moment exists because someone decided to give.

Not a big decision. A small one. A wrapped box, sent a long way.
Last Christmas, 120 children held something like this.

Each one a gift someone chose to send. Each one a way of saying: you are not forgotten.

That's what your giving becomes. Link in bio.

07/08/2026

These two aren't posing.

They're just standing there, looking straight at you. Woolly hats, cold air, whatever's happening behind them still happening. Nobody told them to smile.

That's the thing about this work. It doesn't clean itself up for the camera. It shows up in parking lots with carts full of food.

It drives out to communities most people drive past. It hands a bag of goods to a child and moves on to the next one.

Your donation is what keeps the van running. Link in bio.

07/07/2026

He came and sat with him.
Not to deliver something. Not to check a box. Just to be there, close, holding his hand while the rest of the room carried on around them.

That kind of presence is its own form of giving. It costs time. Attention. The willingness to enter someone else's world and stay a while.

This is what your support makes possible. Not just food and roofs and gifts. People showing up for people.
Link in bio.

07/06/2026

Four people. Four different moments. One thread running through all of them.

A child learning to pray. A man sitting with his thoughts. An elderly face carrying decades of something unspoken. A young man laughing at the ceiling.

We don't get to choose who needs us. We just get to choose whether we go.
Your donation is what sends people. Link in bio.

07/05/2026

Natalia Balan runs a centre for disabled children in Orhei, Moldova.
She didn't have to write. She chose to.

"I commend you and thank you from my heart." That's the Director of the Centre for Disabled Children in Orhei, Moldova, writing about what Lucian and the Love Gives Romania team brought when they showed up.

Not a donation receipt. Not a form letter. A thank-you from someone who watches over those children every day and knows exactly what it means when someone comes through the door carrying something.

Your giving reaches places like Orhei. Through people like Lucian. Into the hands of children like the ones Natalia looks after.

That's the chain. And you're part of it. Link in bio.

07/04/2026

She's wearing mittens and holding a box almost as wide as she is.

That's the image. A little girl in a pink hat, standing in the cold, arms full of something wrapped in green paper. She's not waiting for it. She already has it.

Behind her, in the other frames: an old man being embraced. An elderly woman at her door in the snow. People who have lived long enough to know what it means when someone shows up.

Different ages. Same moment. Someone came.

Your gift is what sends people out in the cold to knock on doors and carry boxes and put their arms around strangers. Link in bio.

07/03/2026

It's snowing. She's standing outside in a floral housecoat.
He came to her door.

That's the detail that stays. Not a distribution centre, not a queue. Someone knocked on this woman's door in the middle of winter and she opened it.

Whatever was handed to her in that moment, she received it standing in the snow outside her own home.

That's what it means to reach people where they are. Not where it's convenient. Where they actually live.

Link in bio.

07/02/2026

There are children in every frame here. Balloons in one room. Gift boxes in another.

A classroom, a celebration, a quiet moment in the cold. Different days, different places.

The same decision made over and over: to go, to bring something, to stay a while.

That's what a caring heart looks like when it actually does something.

Link in bio.

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215-425 Hespeler Road
Cambridge, ON

Website

http://lovegives316.com/

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