Welcome to Canadian Angels

Our Armed Forces will be in Afghanistan until at least 2009. They have been there since the days following September 11th, when Canada was one of the first countries to step up to the plate and take a stand against the terrorists who attacked our friends and neighbours, and killed 24 of our fellow countrymen and women. It has not been an easy mission, but our Canadian soldiers, sailors, airmen and RCMP have accomplished much, by rooting out Al Qaeda, breaking up the Taliban, providing infrastructure to Afghanistan, and giving aid to its people.

I started Canadian Angels because I felt there was a need for our Armed Forces to know that the people back home in Canada supported them. For years programs like this have existed in the United States, but for our brave Canadian men and women fighting in Afghanistan and stationed around the world, there has been very little.

Our peacekeepers deserve to know that we appreciate them defending the freedoms we enjoy here in Canada. They put themselves in the line of fire every day for you and I, to protect us, and to bring our free and democratic way of life to places all over the globe.

I don't think it's too much to ask that we send over a letter, or a birthday card, or a packet of snacks to the ones who keep us safe. Show a Forces Member how much you appreciate them, and how proud you are of the work they do - become an Angel!

Wendy Sullivan

UPDATE: June 2007

Canadian Angels has been in existence for more than a year now, and I feel the time is right to make some changes. The wonderful outpouring of support for our troops has been so overwhelming that we simply do not have enough soldiers to pair the Angels with. And so I am dispensing with the adoption - for now, at least. Any soldier who registers with us can be assured of a match, but I will not be taking any more applications from sponsors at this time.

Canadian Angels will instead focus our efforts more on Landstuhl Hospital, where we are able to give to those who need our support the most: the injured. For most of the past year, many Canadian Angels have been sending packages to Landstuhl for all the Coalition troops. As this has been incredibly rewarding, we will continue to do so. It was to my shame that I learned last year that the Soldiers' Angels in the USA had been caring for and spoiling our Canadian wounded alongside their own, and we had been contributing nothing. That has since been rectified, I'm pleased to say, and will now be the main mission of Canadian Angels.

I hope you all will join me in giving care and compassion to those who have suffered in this war, be they Canadian, British, Italian, Polish, Australian or American. We are all fighting together against a common enemy, and we all deserve the same support.

Wendy Sullivan