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Health and Wellness
RBC supports research and programs that help improve community
health care and children's mental health. Examples include:
- A three-year grant to the Centre for Activity and Aging
for an exercise and education program aimed at older adults,
enabling them to continue to live independently
- Support to extend the Janeway Children's Hospital's Reaching
Out program to all four health regions of Newfoundland and
Labrador. Since 1990, the program's therapists have been
developing, offering and evaluating group programs for children,
youth and families in eastern Newfoundland and Labrador
facing a wide range of issues
- Support for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Foundation's 4th R Program, a comprehensive and integrated
approach for helping schools and communities reduce violence
and risktaking among youth
- Our long-standing commitment to the Heart & Stroke
Foundation of Barbados, which supports educational prevention
programs on radio and television as well as the Cardiac
Disease Prevention and rehabilitation program, provided
to indigent people at no charge
- Support for the U.S.-based Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia
& Parkinson Foundation, dedicated to encouraging new
research and building awareness
- Contributions to the Bahamas Cancer Caring Centre
- Support for the Fondation PH Suisse in Geneva, Switzerland.
The organization's programs centre on family medicine, infectious
and chronic diseases, reproductive health, health care management
and humanitarian assistance. Recently, the projects have
focused on Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia
- Contributions to the Theodora Foundation in Madrid, Spain,dedicated
to training actors to work as clown-doctors in children's
hospitals, and the Fundación Española del
Corazón, which conducts research in cardiovascular
diseases.
Our employees volunteer their time to health care organizations
and charities around the world, such as:
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Ride for Research,
in which teams on stationary bicycles compete. In 2007,
3,064 employees across Canada raised $784,260. RBC also
donated $60,000 to recognize our employee efforts
- The 27th annual Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research. Hundreds
of RBC employees, from London, Ontario to London, U.K. took
part. RBC Royal Bank branches once again accepted pledge
sheets from runners
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society's walks and bike rides
across Canada, in which hundreds of RBC employees and family
members take part annually. RBC also hosted a golf tournament
in Toronto for the MS Society, raising $390,000 for the
cause, bringing the total raised since 1995 to $2.25 million
- Over 100 RBC British Isles employees took part in the
Jersey Marathon, raising money for Headway, a brain injury
charity
- The Alzheimer's Society, which our Guernsey staff selected
as their chosen charity for 2007. By the end of October,
we had raised almost £10,000 for the charity, with
£6,342 coming from a Memory Walk in which more than
100 employees participated with their families and friends.
More on RBC's Health
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