The secular, grassroots Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House (DTES NH) embraces people of all ancestries, genders, ages and descriptions; annually welcoming almost 9,000 DTES residents in a community where 70% of their neighbours have low‐incomes, 700 are homeless and 5,000 are under-housed.
Their programming is community inspired and varied, a sampling of which has included a Chinese Elders Community Kitchen, Traditional Aboriginal Community Kitchen, Leadership Development, a Children’s Community Kitchen, Nutritional Outreach Activities (Mobile Smoothie Project and Banana Beat), The Healing Circle, Father’s for Thought, Table Talks project, Family Drop In: Families, Farming and Food, Community Drop-in and the production of a Right to Food Zine.
The morning will consist of cutting and preparing to freeze fruit for their mobile smoothie cart.
If you plan to promote your Day of Caring experience. Arrange to have photos and videos taken so you can share them with your co-workers and family:
- Tweet using the tags @uwlm, #DayofCaring and #LocalLoveinAction
- Post on Facebook
- Post pictures or upload videos on your intranet at work
- Share your good deeds with the local media such as community newspapers
Please remember to recognize our program as the United Way Day of Caring in all promotion. Sharing your United Way experience will help promote the work we do to improve people’s lives by building stronger communities for all.
