United Way's Coats for Kids Campaign

We've had our first of many tastes of winter. It's getting colder by day, and there's TONS snow on the ground. In about one and a half months, it will be Christmas.

Our winter gear is coming out: changing our car tires to winter, putting on toques, mittens, hats, a warm coat, and bringing out the snow shovels.

Homelessness and poverty are all things that "happen in life" and that we are aware of, but most of the time, we never exactly act.  Now, we can.

Since 1992, United Way has been organizing a campaign called Coats for Kids & Families.  It is a campaign that provides winter clothing (coats, hats, mittens, scarves, etc.) for the less fortunate who can't afford them.  Last year, 10,794 coats were collected, cleaned, sorted, and distributed.  We can do better, with your help, than that THIS YEAR.  

United Way is asking the community at large to donate new and gently worn coats and outerwear by dropping them off at one of our Drop-Off locations. Page the Cleaner has partnered with United Way to provide a professional dry-cleaning to all gently worn donated items. Once cleaned, the coats are brought to United Way’s In Kind Centre where groups of volunteers sort and package the coats to be delivered to social agencies who distribute the items to the people who need them.

For more information on drop-off locations, please visit the Coats for Kids & Families website here.