Sleeping Children Around the World
- Sleeping Children Around the World
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name = Sleeping Children Around the World (SCAW)
type = Charity
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foundation = 1970
founder = Murray Dryden
location_city = Toronto
location_country = Canada flagicon|Canada
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key_people = Dave Dryden; Clarence Deyoung; Laura Harper
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Sleeping Children Around the World (SCAW) is a charitable organization, founded in 1970 by Murray Dryden and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, providing bedkits to children in developing countries. In return for each $30 CAD donation, SCAW provides a child with a kit consisting of a mat or mattress, pillow, bed sheet, blanket, mosquito net (if required), clothes outfit, towel and school supplies. [cite web |url=http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012409 |title=Dryden, Murray (profile) |accessdate=2007-06-04 |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work=The Canadian Encyclopedia |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]
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[http://www.scaw.org/index.html Sleeping Children Around the World]
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