A DAY OF HOPE BEGINS WITH A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP.
Our guiding principles are at the very core of our organization. We operate under this blanket of core values, which guides our direction and our mission, and keeps everyone on the same journey.
At Sleeping Children Around the World:
We believe that it is the basic right of every child to have a comfortable night's sleep
100% of all bedkit donations go directly to its contents. No portion is used to pay for operating expenses
We provide hope and joy and aim to preserve the dignity of each child we help
We verify that each bedkit is received by a child in need
All donations are of "free will" giving. We will not undertake telemarketing, door to door appeals, mass mailings or use professional fundraisers to help our cause
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
Margaret & Murray Dryden
Murray and his wife Margaret believed in building community - locally and globally. During a retirement trip to Pakistan, Murray tripped over a child sleeping on the street. He and Margaret recognized that they could support children like this by providing the child with the basic tools for a comfortable sleep. As a long-time member of international service clubs, Murray was able to engage a partner in Pune, India to work together to provide 50 children in a local orphanage with comfortable bedding. When Murray returned to Canada and friends asked what he had been doing in India, he showed them the photos of the children with their new bedding. The friends offered that if he were to do this again, they would be interested in pitching in some of their money too, to get more bedkits to vulnerable children… .
In 1970, Murray and Margaret formally created Sleeping Children Around the World as a registered Canadian Children’s Charity.
Today, over 1.8 million children have received bedkits from Sleeping Children Around the World.