Soap for Hope Canada, which receives funding from the Times Colonist Christmas Fund, provides hygiene products to people in need.
She was neatly dressed, well-spoken, well-mannered and trying mightily to keep her chin up while queueing for a free meal with the other people who couldn’t afford to eat.
Her predicament was hardly unique. “The overwhelming issue for seniors in B.C. is affordability,” read a report from the province’s seniors’ advocate this year. “They are simply unable to absorb increased costs for rent, groceries, transportation, property taxes, home support, personal care and other services needed as we age. Seniors in homeless shelters and food bank line-ups now appear to be commonplace.
“It’s a forgotten demographic with the fastest-growing need,” says Anne McIntyre. She deals with that need every day at Soap for Hope Canada, the little charity she runs from a warehouse in Vic West. Right now the focus is on putting together hygiene kits for low-income seniors on Vancouver Island. Volunteers have been stuffing Ziploc bags with toothpaste, toothbrushes, dish soap, Tums, deodorants, lotions, tissues, laundry detergent, nail clippers, vitamins…. There are also personal touches: facecloths knitted by volunteers, handwritten Christmas cards from local students, fancy soaps fashioned by a woman who temporarily turned her greenhouse into Santa’s Workshop for that purpose.
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