OUTREACH # 7 (Saturday, May 18, 2019) The alarm woke us up bright and early at 6:00 AM this morning. We had decided that we would be downtown by 10:30 AM the latest, and we still had to go through some clothing and finish filling up some Project Dignity bags. Once we finally finished,
Outreach # 6 Sunday, May 5, 2019 Before we were to head out for our 6th outreach, we already had 64 Project Dignity bags, that we filled last weekend, ready to go. On Saturday we had stopped at Dollarama to buy a bunch of toothbrushes since we still had a few boxes of travel
Project Dignity for All Update (Sunday, April 28, 2019) This has been an extremely busy weekend for Beau and me! On Friday afternoon Beau picked me up from work and we drove to Gatineau to pick up our new family member. We adopted a handsome, almost two-year-old Tabby cat named Buddy. We spent the evening
(EASTER SUNDAY) April 21, 2019 I want to begin by saying that Beau and I wish everyone a Happy Easter and a wonderful long weekend. We also want to say a big thank you to all of you who have kindly given Project Dignity such great donations! Stephanie, Sue, Brian, Scott, Kat, Kelly, and others.
My husband (Beau) and I (Andrea) live in a modest home. We have busy lives, working fulltime, trying to keep up with the bills, trying to go to the gym regularly, spending quality time with family etc. Even though we are very busy, we decided that we still also wanted to give back a little
Saturday, April 6, 2019, was out 4th outreach venture. It was to be the first time we would use the new 100 cup coffee urn. We spent a few hours in the early morning filling some of the Project Dignity bags with donated items we still had available. Beau also went through his closet and
On Saturday, Mar 23rd, Beau and I embarked on our third outreach venture downtown. As we didn’t have many donated items left, we decided we would hand out coffees instead. Although the sun was shining brightly that day, the wind was extremely cold and nipped at our faces as we were walking about! We went
On Sunday, March 17, 2019, we headed back downtown as planned, to bring Julien a coat and some other items of clothing we had set aside specifically for him. We had looked for and found a backpack attached to a steel frame for $7:00 at the local goodwill store and placed all of the things
Saturday, March 9, 2019, was our first venture out into downtown Ottawa to do a bit of outreach work and give away some of our pre-filled Project Dignity bags to some of Ottawa’s homeless population. Beau’s gym bag was filled with bags for men, and mine was filled with bags for women. Neither one
