New Life Candle program brings life-giving light and heat to desperate children and families worldwide.
Sunshine Bay Natural Products today announced their new Life Candle Program to support Canadian Food For Children in their mandate to assist children in need around the world, in honor of World Environment Day.
Sunshine Bay has just taken its inaugural shipment of Life Candles to CFFC’s Penticton location to kick start their innovative new environmental program bringing lifesaving light and heat to families in need in 20 countries worldwide.
Through the Life Candle Program, Sunshine Bay now creates new 100% natural candles from remnant wax recovered from their candle manufacturing processes. The wax is melted and poured into clean small reused tins collected mainly by Sunshine Bay’s management and staff. The Life Candles are then packed into plastic buckets to provide additional products to carry lifesaving water and staple food items. The plastic buckets are donated by two local businesses, The Kaslo Front Street Market and Cornucopia natural food store.
“We are a growing, family-owned business that manufactures and ships our natural products including 100% pure beeswax candles to markets all over North America, and, as an environmentally conscious company, we felt it was important to do more to improve both the environment and our global community,” said Leah Honkanen, General Manager for Sunshine Bay.
“We are excited to distribute these new Life Candles to countries around the world where candles for light, heat and cooking can make the difference between life and death,” said Joanne Martin for Canadian Food For Children.
Sunshine Bay is already strongly committed to the environment, with many green initiatives in their manufacturing processes and a focus on pure natural products produced locally in the pristine Kootenay Lake area of BC. Sunshine Bay is also no stranger to creating environmental programs. Our reuse program diverts 14,000 lb of shredded paper from being directly trucked to recycling facilities each year. We reuse that shredded paper as packing material, saving our small remote community about $1500 a year in transportation costs. Our customers then have the option of recycling the shredded paper themselves.
The pristine beauty of Sunshine Bay’s location encourages owners and employees
alike to live in balance with Nature and they have a long tradition of reducing, recycling, and reusing.
Canadian Food For Children is a non-denominational registered charity comprised entirely of volunteers who care deeply about the suffering poor of the world. Their mandate is to raise funds, purchase food, and gather goods for the hungry in developing countries. One hundred percent of donations are used to buy food and to pay for shipping costs. The BC Division has locations in Penticton and Langley. In 2007 there were 450 containers (5141 tons) shipped from Vancouver and Toronto to 20 countries including: Angola, Dominica, El Salvador, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. www.canadianfoodforchildren.org