Last month, the Lunches for Learning program provided families with food packages to send 5,255 lunches to school with their kids. Thank you to everyone in the community who supports Lunches for Learning!
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May Food Bank Stats
May set another record in our food bank – we helped 526 people, the most ever in one month. Those individuals come from 301 households, and 133 of them were children.
Office and thrift store closed for Victoria Day
Our office will be closed Monday, May 22. Whether you’re spending your long weekend at camp, in the garden, or catching up on some binge-watching, we hope you enjoy it!
April Period Pantry Stats
We are so grateful to the community for its support of the Period Pantry. In the program’s second month, 104 clients accessed it. That’s an increase of 33 percent compared to March! Remember that anyone can access The Period Pantry, even if you do not need a full food bank package. Just stop in during Read More
April Lunches for Learning Stats
In April, the Lunches for Learning program provided school lunch food packages for families to make a total of 5,375 lunches. Thank you to all our supporters and volunteers who made this possible.
April Soup Kitchen Stats
In April, our Soup Kitchen served 1,321 meals. Thank you to our dedicated soup kitchen teams who made this possible: Team Helping Hands Emmaus Anglican Church Friends Who Care Summit St. Basil’s staff Mother Teresa Conference (2 teams) Bethany Baptist Church Knights of Columbus 7999
[RESOLVED] We’re Having Facebook Trouble
*This is now resolved! Thank you for your patience* Please note that we are currently having trouble with our Facebook page, so it is not visible at this time. If you normally stay up to date with what we’ve got going on via Facebook, please check this site daily instead. We will do our best Read More
Order your St. Vincent Place Merch Today!
Show your support for St. Vincent Place with a shirt, hoodie, or hat! Order through our online store, courtesy of SK Group, until Sunday, May 7. Click here to start shopping!
April Food Bank Stats
This April set another record with a 16% increase in total number of clients compared to our previous April high. This increase is largely because we are seeing more and more families with children coming to us for help.
Thank you to all our volunteers!
To wrap up National Volunteer Week, we want to send a special thank you to each and every one of our volunteers, without whom we would not be able to function. Our volunteers put in hundreds of hours every week here at St. Vincent Place. To put it into perspective, if we paid our volunteers Read More