Trekking Cambodia 2025: KA Team Lead Lindsay Strom is Raising Funds for Local Women's Shelters

This October, Lindsay will be taking on her 1^st Charity challenge—trekking 100 km across Cambodia.

For 5 days, she’ll be travelling alongside other RLP Shelter Foundation champions from across Canada to Cambodia to trek in support of women and children who have experienced intimate partner violence.

This spectacular 5 day trek towards the picturesque temples of Angkor Wat won’t be easy. Days will be long, hot, and humid and jet lag will be intense. She will be going without the comforts of home, sleeping in small tents, using rustic bathroom facilities and unplugging completely from cell service and technology. To be eligible to take part, each participant must pay their own trek and travel expenses and raise at least $6,000 for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation – but Lindsay has set her personal goal at $15,000. 80% of the money raised will go to Sandgate Women’s Shelter of York Region, and 20% goes to supporting national programs to prevent domestic violence. Royal LePage covers all administrative costs, so 100% of your donation directly helps our communities.

Your Impact

Your donation will help provide safe shelter, counseling, and a new beginning for survivors of domestic violence.

The Shelter Foundation has raised more than $46 million to-date and currently supports 200 local women’s shelters and national partners. RLP agents donate a portion of their commissions, and Royal LePage offices across Canada host local fundraising events. Every dollar raised goes directly to helping the more than 50,000 women and children who are served each year by the shelters and support programs we fund.

The Reality of Domestic Violence

Violence against women happens in all cultures and religions, in all ethnic and racial communities, at every age, and in every income group
Half of all women in Canada have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16¹
Every year in Canada, an estimated 360,000 children witness family violence²
On any given day in Canada, 3000 women (and their 2500 children) are living in an emergency shelter to escape family violence³
On average, every six days in Canada a woman is murdered by her intimate partner.⁴
Collectively, Canadians spend $7.4 billion each year to deal with the aftermath of spousal violence. This figure includes immediate costs such as emergency room visits, future costs such as loss of income, and intangible costs such as pain and suffering.⁵

By supporting women’s shelters, we are ensuring that women and children have a safe place to go to escape domestic violence. With their national partners, the Shelter Foundation funds healthy relationship programs for youth and support programs that help women and children heal from their experiences of abuse and rebuild their lives.

Be sure to follow along Lindsay’s mental and physical training journey as she prepares for this life-changing experience!

Will you join Lindsay in making a difference?

DONATE TO LINDSAY’S TREK HERE!

Every contribution over $20 receives a tax receipt.

Thank you for your generosity and support!

¹The Violence Against Women Survey, Statistics Canada, 1993. Although more up-to-date data would be preferable, no future Statistics Canada survey asked women about their life-time experience of violence.
²Behind Closed Doors: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children, Joint report by UNICEF, The Body Shop International, and the Secretariat for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Study on Violence Against Children, 2006.
³Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile 2009, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada, page 12.
⁴Homicide in Canada, 2009, Sara Beattie and Adam Cotter, Juristat, Volume 30, Number 3, Statistics Canada, page 14
⁵An Estimation of the Economic Impact of Spousal Violence in Canada, 2009.