New Year, New Opportunities - Jan. 2024
Written By Inasmuch Community Society
We are 3 weeks into 2024... have you made any concrete changes?
We have!
At Inasmuch we are grateful for 2 new housing units that were recently available to rent in Chilliwack. This has brought our number of transition houses from 2 to 4.
There are long waiting lists full of refugee claimant families desperately seeking safe, affordable housing. We are thankful we could invite 3 new families into a comfortable, warm home - especially before the 'arctic outflow' we just endured locally!
Between Abbotsford and Chilliwack, we now provide housing for 7 refugee claimant families.
These are courageous men and women coming from traumatic situations, willing to start all over in an unfamiliar place. They take steps alongside our caring staff, accessing health care, registering their children in school and completing other important steps along the refugee claimant journey. Their next priorities are to find a job, make friends and integrate into life in beautiful British Columbia.
We call this comprehensive care wrap-around support services.
New Homes, New Supplies Needed
Each family who moves into an Inasmuch home needs:
a starter kit
furnishings
friends
If you're able to contribute to any of these areas of care, please click one of the links below.
A Starter Kit
Click here to see starter kit supply list and donate items
Click here to contribute towards a start up hamper
Furnishings
Click here to see list of current items needed
Just before Christmas we received a card from a past resident family which included 3 grocery gift cards and a note which read "For someone who needs this now."
How fun to see kindness paid forward from other past residents! We are blessed by the generosity of the families we have known and cared for. Whether offering their skills, time, financial donations or practical items, they give back out of the knowledge of what it felt like to receive.
MEI Eagles Donations Soar
A big thank you to Brad Knodel, Kaitie Schroeder and all the teachers and students at MEI for the incredible abundance of beautiful winter wear that they collected and donated to Inasmuch for residents. Our families and little ones were cozy, warm, and ready for this past week of snowy weather (many of them had never experienced snow before).
Thank you for making 2023 an Epic Year at Inasmuch!
We are grateful for each one of you and the many ways you contributed your time, talents and treasure in 2023.
Please check your email inbox to find your tax receipt for 2023.
If you are unable to locate it, please email accounting@inasmuch.ca
May your 2024 be filled with faith, hope and love.
(1 Cor. 13:13)