Christmas packages for seniors are being assembled in a corner of the Soap for Hope Canada warehouse in Vic West.
Puzzles, games, chocolates, toques, handwritten Christmas cards, that sort of thing, all in addition to the toothpaste and shampoo and other hygiene products that regularly go out the door to those who need, but can’t afford, them. It looks like Santa’s workshop, or at least what Santa’s workshop would look like if he took personal health more seriously.
“I feel we’re in the little cracks and crevices, trying to help those who don’t always get a hand up,” says Anne McIntyre, the charity’s executive director. She’s standing in the middle of the William Street warehouse from which, despite its appropriately out-of-sight innocuousness, 1.2 million items flowed to recipients all over B.C. last year.
Seniors get their soap in easy-to-squeeze containers. Families get somewhat larger ones. A bulk-user like Our Place might get a four-litre jug. Even last month, the charity was still outfitting Camp Hope, a church retreat that morphed into a shelter for people displaced by the fire that razed Lytton in 2021. These days, lots of bedding goes to Ukrainian refugees moving into their own apartments.
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