Who is covered
Membership is by family. You pay once, for yourself and for your own, with no additional charge per person.
- The member
- Their spouse
- Their dependent children
Get involved · Solidarity Fund
Nobody should have to find the money on the day of a death
The Solidarity Fund is families helping each other: you pay in while all is well, so that funeral costs are already covered on the day they land. The board created the programme in 2013, after the centre had covered funerals for several families in the community.
- Money, quickly
- Help with the paperwork
- Someone alongside you
- Solidarity that lasts
- Paid within
- 24 to 48 h
- Annual fee
- $200 per family, per year
- Payable before
- 31 March
- Cover runs
- 1 January to 31 December
- Programme adopted
- 16 March 2013
What the fund covers
The programme has one purpose: that a family facing a death has neither to raise money nor to chase paperwork in the hours that follow.
The fund steps in four ways:
- A contribution towards funeral costs, paid within 24 to 48 hours of the death being confirmed
- Help organising the funeral, and the administrative steps taken off your hands
- Coordination with the hospitals, the mosque and the funeral homes
- Someone alongside the family through the period of grief
How to join
Two steps, and only the first asks you to write to us.
Ask for the membership form
Write to us and we will send it, or collect it at the centre.
Pay the annual fee
$200 per family, in a single payment, before 31 March.
Ways to pay
- Cash
- In person, at the centre
- Cheque
- Payable to “Centre de développement socioculturel Balimaya”, 5690 rue Fullum, office B, Montréal, Québec H2G 2H7
- Bank transfer
- Write to us and we will send you the account details
- Money order
- Payable to Centre de développement socioculturel Balimaya
Fees are deposited in an account reserved for the programme, separate from the centre's other operations.
Staying a member
Renewal is annual. The date to remember is 31 March.
- Reminders
- Two written reminders, a month apart, before any withdrawal
- Withdrawal
- Automatic after two consecutive annual fees go unpaid
- Arrears
- The funeral contribution does not apply once a year of arrears is on record
- Leaving voluntarily
- By written request to the centre's president
Fees already paid are not refundable, including on withdrawal.
Common questions
No. The contribution is offered even if the person died abroad, and it can be used to pay for repatriating the body.
No. A donation supports the centre's activities; a membership fee buys the programme's services, for you and for your family. If you are looking to give, the Donate page is there for that.
A year of cover runs from 1 January to 31 December. Write to us with the date you would like to join and we will tell you what applies in your case.
Join the fund
Write to us and we will send you the form. You can also read the programme in full before deciding: it is the document the board adopted, and it governs.
- The annual fee is $200 per family, $50 more than in previous years. The figure in force is the one shown on this page.