Your neighbours need you. - Neighbour to Neighbour Centre

Introducing
Doug Farraway, Director of Development
Doug began his broadcasting career in 1974 at CKOC. Doug has since worked in broadcast and print media
holding titles such as News Director at K/Lite and CKOC/Oldies 1150 and Sports Director at the FAN 590 where
he spent the last 16 years. He has written for the Mountain News and hosted shows on Cable 14. He currently
hosts “For the Record, Council Edition”.
He is a volunteer coach for men’s and women’s hockey and soccer, and organizer of three Mountain Terry
Fox runs. He is a member of several historical boards including Head of the Lake Historical Society, Hamilton
Mountain Historical Society, and the soon to be incorporated “Friends of Auchmar”.
Doug was introduced to Neighbour to Neighbour Centre in 2012 when he became a Volunteer Tutor
in the Kids Can Succeed Program.
Your
neighbours
need you.
At Neighbour to Neighbor Centre we provide programs and services that help
to alleviate poverty on the Hamilton Mountain, but we Need Your Help!
Utility Subsidy
Program
Here’s How!
Community Gardens
• Donate garden tools, plants, seeds, cedar
lumber for raised beds etc.
• Fundraise for the development of
our Gardens
• Offer land for Community / Victory
Gardens
• Provide a tractor to plough land
• Provide horticultural design for
our Gardens
• Adopt A Garden ($5,000)
• Maintain a Garden ($2,500)
Kids Can Succeed
• $7,000 provides one school with an entire
Kids Can Succeed Program for a
school year
• $2,000 provides all of our Kids Can
Succeed students with books that are
presented at our year- end celebrations.
• $1,500 provides leveled reading materials
at one Kids Can Succeed school
• $600 provides one Kids Can Succeed
student with 30 hours of one-on-one
reading assistance
• $50 provides one Kids Can Succeed
student with a Certificate of Reading
Achievement, school supplies, and a book
bag at the year-end celebration
The Utility Subsidy Program is a
Low-income Energy Assistance
Program (LEAP) that is offered by
Neighbour to Neighbour Centre.
LEAP is designed to provide financial
assistance of up to $500/per year
to families which have received a
disconnection notice from Horizon
Utilities.
Resource Counselling Program
• Fluent in another language? We are
always looking for volunteers to help us
translate information
• $100 provides eight Resource
Counselling Sessions
28 Athens Street,
Hamilton, ON L9C 3K9
Phone: 905-574-1334
Fax: 905-574-1688
www.n2ncentre.com
Volunteers collecting Christmas
donations at Santa Claus Parade
Help is just
a neighbour away.
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Christmas Hamper Program
The Christmas Hamper Program provides the
necessary groceries to prepare a Christmas
breakfast, lunch and dinner for both families
and individuals. The Program also provides
a family gift, stocking stuffers, and toys for
children 12 and under.
Last year, 1,546 hampers were distributed
to those in need during the holiday season.
Nearly 6,000 individuals benefited from the
Program which distributed $303,775 in food
and gifts. Our goal is to exceed this value
in 2012.
Your gift to the Christmas Hamper
Program will be put to work immediately
to help families in need during the
holiday season.
How your gift helps:
• $10 buys grocery vouchers to help
with the cost of food purchases
• $15 buys a stocking stuffer
• $25 buys a family gift
• $35 buys a toy for a child
Volunteers setting up Christmas
Hamper Food Store, 2011
The following items are offered at our
Christmas Store for our Hamper Program.
Consider donating:
• Food Voucher
• Turkey
• Stuffing
• Cranberry sauce
• Turkey Gravy
• Canned Corn
• Peas, Beans
• Fresh Potatoes
• Soup
• Squash
2011 Christmas Hamper Food Store
Community Food Access Program
The Neighbour to Neighbour Centre Food
Bank provides emergency food for an
average of 1,200 families every month on
the Hamilton Mountain to those who have
exhausted their resources. One hundred
volunteers work tirelessly to ensure that
these families receive food from our Food
Bank each month. Clients are allotted
points based on the size of their family. The
points are then spent in the Centre’s Food
Bank, which is set up like a grocery store.
During someone’s first visit they will also
see a Neighbour to Neighbour Resource
Counsellor that will help ensure they are
linked to community resources to receive
further assistance.
We have expanded our Community Food
Access service to include Community and
Victory Gardens, so that we can offer fresh
food items to our increasing client base.
Most Needed Items:
• Canned Tomatoes
• Rice
• Pasta / Noodles
• Beans / Chick Peas
• Dried Goods
• Cereal
• Canned Fruit
• Kraft Dinner
• Large Mixed Soups
• Lentils
• Canned Vegetables
• Spaghetti Sauce
• Canned Fish
• Canned Meat
• Tofu
Nutritional Supplements: Nutren/Resource/Boost/Ensure
Diabetic Non-perishable Items
Yummie Tummies - Kids Foods:
• Fresh Vegetables
• Fresh Fruit
• Baby Formula
• Whole Wheat Crackers
• Drinking Boxes
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• Cheese
• Pudding
• Baby Food
• Granola Bars
• Fruit Cups
• Baby Cereal
• Lifestyle Cookies
• Yogurt Cups
• Diapers
With nine gardens and 55 plots, the Gardens
yielded over 30,000 pounds of fresh
produce last year.
Our goal in the Community Food Access
Program is to raise 1,000,000 lbs of food.
“After being diagnosed with cancer, I
had to leave my professional career as
an accountant. Due to the severity of
my illness, it has proven very difficult to
find financial assistance and my savings
have since been exhausted. Since being
diagnosed, my diet has been drastically
altered and I am only able to eat certain
types of foods.
I came to Neighbour to Neighbour
Centre in a time of great difficulty in
my life, but the care I received from
the staff and volunteers was incredible.
Every time I have gone to Neighbour
to Neighbour for assistance, they have
saved the soft foods necessary for my
diet and have pointed me in the direction
of obtaining the assistance I require.
Thank you Neighbour to
Neighbour Centre!”
• Sweet Potatoes
• Fresh Carrots
• Onions
• Apples
• Cereal
• Kid’s Cookies
• Juice
• Danish
• English Muffins
• Bread
• Brownies
• Salmon
• Tuna
• Coffee & Tea
• Jam
• Toiletries
• Candy and Candy Canes
• Toys
• Family Gifts
• Stocking Stuffers
“As a single mother, I had to move from my home due
to domestic violence. On Christmas Eve of 2011, I found
myself with nothing to provide for my family. We had no
tree, no gifts, and nothing to eat. I did not know where
to turn and I did not have any place to go for help. Finally
I was directed to the Neighbour to Neighbour Centre.
After explaining my situation to one of their
counsellors, they quickly began to help my family.
They provided us with a Christmas Tree, gifts for my
children, and food to eat. If it weren’t for Neighbour to
Neighbour Centre we would not have had a Christmas.
Thank you Neighbour to Neighbour Centre!”
Volunteers preparing hampers in
Neighbour to Neighbour Christmas Store
This is how your $100
donation helps:
In the Food Access Program, your $100 donation provides
a one week supply of food for a family of four.
In the Christmas Hamper Program, your $100 donation provides
four children with gifts during the holidays.
In the Community Gardens Program, your $100 donation provides
seeds for four community garden plots.
In the Kids Can Succeed Program, your $100 donation provides
a graduating student with a certificate of reading, books,
school supplies and a book bag, or, it provides one student
with five hours of literacy tutoring.
In the Building Better Futures For Single Mom’s Program, your
$100 donation provides one woman with all of the supplies
needed for eight weeks of training to become a group
facilitator in the program, or, it provides 12 women with a
single Building Better Futures group session, including:
• Information
• Lunch
• Childcare
• Learning Materials
In the Kurdish Outreach & Settlement Services Program,
your $100 donation provides eight newcomer families with
settlement support to:
• Find a family doctor
• Enroll their children in school
• Find jobs
• Receive language training
Help is just a neighbour away.
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