Health care foundation asking for donated items for vulnerable Chilliwack residents
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CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation is accustomed to raising money that supplies essential equipment for health care workers at Chilliwack General Hospital and hospitals in Hope, Abbotsford and Mission.
But their work isn’t limited to just health care facilities. The foundation announced this week that it is bolstering Fraser Health’s Integrated Homelessness Action Response Teams (IHART) by providing essential items to support the needs of unhoused people living on the streets of Chilliwack, in homeless encampments or shelters, and in select supportive housing environments.
The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation, based in Abbotsford but with a weekly presence at Chilliwack General Hospital, is looking for donations of client care items such as toiletries, socks, underwear, sweaters, toques, gloves, shoes, tarps, sleeping bags, backpacks, ponchos, feminine care products, and pet care items. The foundation is also is looking for treats at special holidays such as Easter, Halloween, and Christmas. Seasonal items such as sunscreen, bug spray, water, and plastic cutlery; napkins, paper bags for treats, coffee cups, stir sticks are also on the wish list.
In addition, the foundation gladly accepts nutrition items such as any kind of soft granola bars, fruit/cereal bars, or that kind of quick snack, peanut butter, jam, ketchup, mustard, drinks such as Gatorade and juice boxes, and gift cards to grocery stores for perishable items.
