Sock Birds with Seniors
Vancouver Operative Kat Thorsen spent a sunny summer Saturday afternoon bringing sunshine of a different kind to residents of Rideau Manor Retirement Home in in Burnaby, BC. Residents were invited to help Kat finish off a flock of sock birds soon flying south for winter to be a part of the continued development of the Sinovuyo Caring Families project in Cape Town, South Africa. Kat, you...
Read MoreSpace Monkeys, 4 Max!
Our annual delegation of sock monkeys has shipped off to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in honour of Maximillian Dobbin’s 5th birthday. This year’s theme was ‘Space Monkeys on a Mission to Mars’ and yielded some extremely extraterrestrial sock simians, along with some other spacey species such as space pigs, space birds and a Sock Alien or two! Each year,...
Read MoreOperative Diana goes to Nepal
OSM Operative Extraordinaire Diana Brugos departed on a mission of love and learning this week. She’s headed to Nepal where she will bring sock monkeys made by community and student groups in the GTA to be given to Prisoners Assistance Nepal, an organization that provides homes and schooling for children with incarcerated parents who would otherwise grow up in prison Diana will also be...
Read MoreRussian Delegation/Clowns Sans Frontières
This summer OSM is pleased to be teaming up with Clowns Sans Frontières – Canada to bring laughter, hope & healing to children in Russia. C.S.F. has 3 expeditions to eastern Europe planned for this year, one has already taken place and another 2 are planned for July and November. Beslan: 5-13 April 2013, they held circus workshops in a community that was victim to a terrorist...
Read MoreP.S. 261 for Pencils for Kids
Teacher and Operative Melissa Farran from Brooklyn, NY has been supporting the Sock Monkey Sponsorship program through philanthropy projects she does with her 2nd grade class at PS 261 in Brooklyn for the past few years. They usually set up a post office and sell stamps and handmade postcards, using the money they collect to buy sock monkey sponsorships and send smiles to kids in need....
Read MoreSend in the Clowns!
For the month of March 2013, OSM founder-by-proxy, monkey muse and operative Alice Nelson was on expedition in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Alice is a Master clown ( she actually has a Masters degree in clowning! How cool is that?!) and travelled to SA to share her skill and clown mastery with Clowns Without Borders South Africa to create a touring show. Proceeds and Donations from 2012 OSM...
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