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    Your donation has a lasting impact on young amputees – not only today, but throughout their lives.

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    By using the Key Tag Service, you are a part of what we do! Your support funds our essential programs for amputees.

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Committed to Improving the Quality of Life for Canadian Amputees

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Your donation has a lasting impact on young amputees – not only today, but throughout their lives.

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The War Amps

Committed to Improving the Quality of Life for Canadian Amputees

Thanks to your support of the Key Tag Service, The War Amps is making a difference in the lives of amputees by providing financial assistance for artificial limbs, peer support and information on all aspects of living with amputation.

Child Amputees

A child amputee wearing her water arm in a swimming pool.

Through the CHAMP Program, child amputees are encouraged to accept their amputations and develop a positive approach to challenges.

Ways We Help Child Amputees

War Amputees

Two war amputee veterans standing side by side.

The War Amps proudly serves war amputees and seriously disabled veterans from past and recent conflicts with assistance in navigating their benefits and accessing support services.

Ways We Help War Amputees

Adult Amputees

A female adult leg amputee and a male adult leg amputee sit on a bench in a park.

Through the Adult Amputee Program, The War Amps provides financial assistance towards the cost of artificial limbs and a wealth of information on living with amputation.

Ways We Help Adult Amputees

Key Tag Service

Since 1946, the Key Tag Service has been protecting your keys and supporting our essential programs for amputees.

How do key tags work?

  • Attach a confidentially coded War Amps key tag to your key ring. It is registered only to your name and address.
  • If you lose your keys, the finder can call the toll-free number on the back of the tag or drop them in any mailbox in Canada.
  • The War Amps will return your keys to you by courier, free of charge.

To date, The War Amps has returned more than 1.5 million sets of lost keys to their owners. With the high replacement cost of keys and remote devices, this service is more important than ever!

“I am a longtime supporter of The War Amps, and they have returned two sets of keys I had lost. A wonderful organization and a terrific public service that really works.” Peter

Key Tag Service

Since 1946, the Key Tag Service has been protecting your keys and supporting our essential programs for amputees.

How do key tags work?

  • Attach a confidentially coded War Amps key tag to your key ring. It is registered only to your name and address.
  • If you lose your keys, the finder can call the toll-free number on the back of the tag or drop them in any mailbox in Canada.
  • The War Amps will return your keys to you by courier, free of charge.

To date, The War Amps has returned more than 1.5 million sets of lost keys to their owners. With the high replacement cost of keys and remote devices, this service is more important than ever!

“I am a longtime supporter of The War Amps, and they have returned two sets of keys I had lost. A wonderful organization and a terrific public service that really works.” Peter

You Make Our Programs Possible

When you use a War Amps key tag, you protect your keys and support amputees. Donations to the Key Tag Service make all of our essential programs for amputees possible, providing peer support, much-needed funding for artificial limbs and a strong organization to advocate for their rights. You are a part of what we do, and we can’t thank you enough.

“To the donors who have allowed our son to be a CHAMP, we can’t thank you enough. Thank you for making it so that he doesn’t see himself as less able than anyone else. You have changed his life and allowed him to be the best he can be and enjoy life to the fullest.” Jessica and Allan, CHAMP parents

ABEL AND THE TICATS

Your support helps kids, like Abel, tackle anything they put their minds to.

As The War Amps 2023 National Ambassador, Abel has teamed up with the Ticats in this year's public service announcement, which salutes the Canadian Football League’s longtime support of The War Amps CHAMP Program. CHAMP provides children in Canada with the artificial limbs they need to lead full and active lives.

“As Abel has grown up, being a part of CHAMP has helped him feel secure in himself and his abilities. His prosthetic arm and device that The War Amps funded allows him to do everyday tasks as well as play sports. For us, knowing that CHAMP will pay for the artificial limbs that he needs means fewer worries and that Abel can enjoy the same activities as other children.” Cortney, Abel's mom

Our role in The National Council of Veteran Associations in Canada (NCVA)

Since 1918, The War Amps has fought to protect the rights of amputee veterans and address the difficulties they face. Today, we continue to use nearly 100 years of expertise to assist modern-day war amputees, as well as traditional amputee veterans, and to champion their rights.

The National Council of Veterans Associations in Canada.

For many years, The War Amps has worked in close collaboration with NCVA to ensure the position and concerns of seriously disabled veterans and more particularly veteran amputees are identified and recognized in the NCVA Legislative Agenda for submission to the Government/Veterans Affairs Canada/Department of National Defence.

Learn more about our role in NCVA

Leave a Lasting Legacy for Amputees

A young female arm amputee smiles and stands in front of a field of flowers.
A young female arm amputee smiles and stands in front of a field of flowers.

You can help amputees with a charitable estate donation in your will. Your gift will provide child amputees with artificial limbs and valuable peer support to help them on the road to independence.

Learn more about charitable estate donations 

“My uncle was a very special man with a generous heart, and he couldn’t think of a worthier cause than helping child amputees. He knew The War Amps would use this money well to bring smiles to children’s faces and make their challenges easier.”Family friend
“My uncle was a very special man with a generous heart, and he couldn’t think of a worthier cause than helping child amputees. He knew The War Amps would use this money well to bring smiles to children’s faces and make their challenges easier.”Family friend