MONTREAL — Travel consultants and other industry members showed just how generous they can be at Transat Sun Academies this month, contributing over $7,900 to SOS Children’s Villages.

This organization, present in 134 countries, is the world’s largest charity, providing homes for children who have been abandoned or orphaned.

“A big thank-you to all the consultants who gave so generously again this year to the SOS Children’s Village cause that we care so much about,” said Dan Prior, Sales Manager, Ontario & Atlantic Canada, Transat Tours Canada. “We know that this money will help children who really need it.”

All Sun Academy participant-donors were eligible to win an all-inclusive, seven-day holiday package at a Hard Rock Hotel in Mexico. There were three prizes drawn, one for each of the Quebec, Ontario, Atlantic Canada and Western Canada regions.

The winners are: Lucie Gervais, Voyage Aquarelle, Quebec; Carie Mason, Durham Travel, Ontario and Atlantic; and Cheryl McDonald, ECSC Chestermere, Western Canada.

Transat has been an SOS Children’s Villages partner since the fall of 2009. The tour operator has given a total of over $2 million to the organization since the beginning of this association.