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The Hospitality Project is part of Operation Food Justice, a partnership between Shiloh-Sixth Avenue United, St. Aidan's Presbyterian, and St. Barnabas Anglican Churches. See link to the OFJ newsletter in "bookmarks".
The Hospitality Project gives people dignity and the hope that comes from a helping hand and the opportunity to serve.
The Hospitality Project services include a Resource Office, a Triage Receptionist, and an Advocate. The Resource Office provides access to a courtesy phone as well as up to date multi-lingual information on subjects ranging for housing to health. The Triage Receptionist’s job is to be supportive and assist people in their efforts to access information on things like residential tenancy, aging, and life as a recent immigrant.
The Advocate supports and helps people negotiate more critical and complex issues with which they need specialized help in the areas of health care, housing, and government services such as welfare.
Two days a week, the New Westminster Food Bank is open. During this time, the HP Drop-in services also include:
- a family resource centre and children’s drop-in run by New West Family Place;
- a Teacher from School District # 40 to tutor adults upgrading to grade 11/12;
- a free clothing and household goods exchange,
- refreshments; and
- a variety of community service providers who participate on rotation (e.g. the Public Health Nurse and Dental Hygienist, the Fraserside Community Services Society nutritionist, Seniors Housing Information Program, the Seniors Bureau, the Fire Department Fire Safety Officer, Flu Clinics, the Diabetes Association and multi-cultural organizations such as Mosaic.
We have fabulous volunteers at the Hospitality Project and there are many volunteer opportunities. Volunteers set up the hall for the Hospitality Project, arrange the free clothing and household goods areas, make and serve coffee and welcome and seat people as they come in. In one of those scenarios that make you say, “Hurray! But oh darn!” many of our volunteers move on as they get work or go back to school. As a consequence there are volunteer vacancies right now. Also, if someone was interested in volunteering to do some more administrative support work, that would be a greatly appreciated as well. New volunteers are always welcome!
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