Harvest Project
Harvest is a registered charity on the North Shore that provides food, clothing and counseling serv-ices to individuals and families at risk of homelessness. They operate with a small staff and over 130 North Shore volunteers.
Currently, they list over 500 active clients facing serious life challenges and transition. While pro-viding them with food and clothing during this period, the clear focus is to work with them to set goals, direct them to the appropriate support serv-ices or agencies and assist them in the process of rebuilding their lives. Harvest Project provides a hand up. In 2007, Harvest Project received over 4,300 client visits for services equating to over 2,400 counseling hours, $38,000 worth of job ready clothing and $491,000 worth of food.
North Lonsdale United Church was able to donate a total of $1,352.00 towards this ministry in this past year. We are hoping to become even more involved with Harvest in this next year. There are specific ways in which we can do so, both as individuals as well as a congregation.
They desperately need volunteers who can work one-on-one with their clients either as Client Care Partners or Intake Volunteers.
