Founded in 2004, Speroway is a Christian relief and humanitarian charity that supports families in Canada and around the world. Through partnerships with other relief and development organizations, Speroway collects and distributes food, clothing, medicine, education and other essentials. The charity does development work in Malawi, Kenya, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Speroway's four core programs are Food & Nutrition, Education, Healthcare, and Disaster Response.   

Speroway's Food & Nutrition programming includes school feeding programs, agriculture projects and a food distribution program in Canada. Speroway's Gift-In-Kind (GIK) program distributes food in Canada and globally – the charity states that roughly 4 million Canadians, including 1.15 million children, suffer from malnutrition or live with unstable food access. The charity reports that it has distributed more than 6.5 million meals globally since its founding.  Through its school feeding, community feeding and sponsorship programs, Speroway reports giving out almost 80,000 meals in Malawi, over 2,000 meals in Haiti and almost 11,000 meals in Kenya every month.   

Education programming focuses on breaking the poverty cycle by improving access to quality education. Speroway runs children's education programs, gives secondary and post-secondary scholarships, offers life-skills training and runs community education initiatives. 

Speroway’s healthcare program includes work on malnutrition, deworming, community health, and basic healthcare and medicine. The charity's Emergency Relief & Disaster Response programs offer immediate relief and long-term response to areas affected by natural disasters, conflicts, and other emergencies.

Speroway received donations of $844k in F2020. It also received $6.8m in goods in kind making up 89% of revenues in F2020. Administrative costs are 1% of revenues and fundraising costs are 14% of donations. This results in total overhead spending of 15%. For every dollar donated to the charity, 85 cents go to the cause, which falls within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. 

The charity holds funding reserves of $711k. Excluding the cost of donated goods, funds can cover under 1.2 years of program costs. When including the cost of donated goods, coverage drops to 1 month. 

This charity report is an update that has been sent to Speroway for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming. 

Updated August 23, 2021 by Asha McMullin.