2025 Winners

Meet the 2025 Grand Prize Winners

Congratulations to our three grand prize winners
who won a $30,000 grant for their local Habitat

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Read the illustrated book for Ayaan's winning entry!

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Ayaan

Ayaan

Grade 6
grand prize winner

Ayaan is the Grade 6 grand prize winner, from Stoney Creek, ON. His grant will help build homes with Habitat for Humanity Hamilton.

Read Ayaan's winning poem, "Home isn't just a building".

Jocelyn

Jocelyn

Grade 5
grand prize winner

Jocelyn is the Grade 5 grand prize winner, from Richmond Hill, ON. Her grant goes to Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area.

Read Jocelyn's winning entry, "I Found My Home".

Mehak

Mehak

Grade 4 

grand prize winner

Mehak is the Grade 4 grand prize winner, from Brampton, Ontario. Her grant goes to Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area.

Read Mehak's winning poem, "What Home Means to Me".

2025 Runners Up

Congratulations to our nine runner-up winners
who won a $10,000 grant for their local Habitat

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As the founding sponsor of the Meaning of Home Contest, we continue to believe our children will help build a better future and promote a stronger understanding of affordable housing in their communities. We are honoured to be a part of this contest that reaches teachers, parents and students across the country and grateful that we get to read the heartwarming entries and select the winners.

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