I don't have any beef about Tim Horton's Camp Day. Canada's favourite restaurant chain does a good job of donating coffee money on this day. They also do events that get employees and customers working on the same goal. This includes car washes, barbecues, souvenir sales and straight donations.
Last year, they helped 14,000 underpriviledged children go to camp.
But lets face it, kids get older and sooner or later, they'll have to get some kind of post-secondary education. In Ontario, this is very costly.
Sure there are student loans and scholarships, but one is massive debt and the other is often small with strings attached.
In an age of large government deficits and cutbacks, perhaps, the only additional help a student might have is a large corporate sponsorship that would pay for most of his/her education. I know one bright student who got a $72,000 scholarship from a Canadian bank.
Not all of us are born with rich parents and governments can only do so much. It is time for the corporate sector to step in and help the deserving, but underpriviledged students.
Get other companies to sponsor "Post Secondary Education Day/Week/Month".