Halifax soup kitchen looks to expand to help more homeless
Posted Jan 2, 2018 10:08:00 AM.
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One Halifax soup kitchen has big goals for 2018, with expansion plans to provide overnight shelter for the homeless.
And like all charity work, it can't be done without help from the community.
Co-founder and CEO of Souls Harbour Rescue Mission Michelle Porter says a good resolution for the new year is to volunteer your time with an organization you believe in.
Porter said like all other shelters in the city, Souls Harbour can't survive without volunteers.
“We serve over 50,000 meals a year and we have a bare-bones staff,” said Porter. “There are so many jobs. We give away 150,000 articles of clothing a year, and so we need people to help us organize that as well.”
She says contributing to society is the base of humanity and if residents think more conciously about helping others this year, the city will flourish in 2018.
Porter says there are about 2,000 people who are homeless or nearly so in HRM. She says Souls Harbour plans on having its emergency shelter with between 12-24 beds built by the fall.
