ING DIRECT Children's Charities

ING DIRECT provides financial support to a variety of programs and organizations that directly benefit children. Our focus is on health and education, but our goal is to see that every child is given the opportunity to achieve the best future possible. The children we aim to reach are not limited by borders. We are determined to help all disadvantaged youth - locally, regionally, nationally, and globally - receive a fair chance at life. No child should go without.

Many ING DIRECT employees volunteer for each of the charities we sponsor corporately. Our volunteers help in many ways, including reading stories to children with the Performers for Literacy and serving breakfast in schools throughout Toronto to help the Breakfast for Learning program. Also, our employees hold internal fundraising events each year to raise money for our select charities.

Plan Canada

Plan (formerly Foster Parents Plan) is a member of Plan International, a humanitarian, child-focused development organization. Non-political, and with no religious affiliations, they aim to build a better world for children, now and in the future.

Since 1999, ING DIRECT and Plan have partnered together to bring hope, health and happiness to children around the world. ING DIRECT has sponsored 15 children since 1999 - helping provide health, education, clean water and more to communities around the world.

In 2006 ING DIRECT began sponsoring 26 children living in some of Bolivia's most impoverished villages. It is our goal to help not only the children, but their communities as well. Together we plan to raise enough money to build schools and hospitals and provide all other necessities to the villages that need the most help.

Children's Wish Foundation

The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada is dedicated to working within communities across the country to fulfill wishes for children diagnosed with high-risk, life-threatening illnesses. ING DIRECT has been a dedicated sponsor of the program, striving to fulfill as many wishes, as possible for our country's children.

Chances for Children

ING Chances for Children is an ING Group corporate program that aims with the help of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, to give 50,000 children in India, Brazil and Ethiopia access to education and to improve the quality of education in the local communities in which ING businesses are active. Our employees support this by donating their skills, time and funds.

Performers for Literacy

Founded in 1990 during the International Year of Literacy, Performers for Literacy is a registered charity that seeks to foster the development of a reading culture in Canada, using national media, local celebrities and community role models to encourage children to read by making it fun. The money we give helps to support programs and events that foster a sense of the value of reading in children.

Breakfast for Learning

Breakfast for Learning, Canadian Living Foundation is the only national non-profit organization solely dedicated to supporting child nutrition programs in Canada. Since 1992, the Foundation has supported child nutrition programs in over 3,600 Canadian communities, providing not only program grants, but also educational resources and community development support. BREAKFAST FOR LEARNING, Canadian Living Foundation is committed to ensuring that Canada's children have the nourishment they need to do well at school.