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By Curtis Galbraith

Community

Adopt A Family program back this year

Oct 14, 2019 | 7:00 AM

Odyssey House wants to help more people over the Christmas season with its Adopt-a-Family program.

Thirty-four single mother families received over $14,000 worth of gifts and food-related items benefitted last year. Those families included 67 kids.

Odyssey House’s Director of Communications Makayla Marcotte says they have a support team that works with women in the community that do not need shelter, but need things like court support.

“Those individuals access this program because they need a little bit of help around the holiday season to be able to potentially provide gifts for Christmas or Hanukkah, whatever holiday they chose to celebrate, as well as the holiday meal.”

She adds they are accepting donations and that anyone interested can call or email Odyssey House.

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“What will happen is we will match you with a family while keeping their privacy. You’ll get an identification number with some details surrounding that family, so family size, whether it’s one to two people, so one mom and two children or if it’s a family of four to five, so one mom and three to four children,” she explained.

Anyone interested can email reception@odysseyhouse.ca or call 780-538-1332 extension 101.