Earlier this week, the Lethbridge Soup Kitchen sounded the alarm on social media, in want of $10,000 in donations to cowl its bills for the month of November.
“Our month-to-month bills for primary prices is roughly $20,000 a month,” government director Invoice Ginther mentioned. “That’s for wages, insurance coverage, utilities, simply the essential naked bones prices to function.”
“We’ve been seeing the final a number of months solely about 10,000 ({dollars} a month) has are available.”
Due to the generosity of the neighborhood, that quantity has been reached, however Ginther doesn’t count on the reduction to final.
“We did get a fairly good inflow of {dollars} and we’re high quality for November, but it surely doesn’t imply that we’re high quality past the month,” Ginther mentioned.
“We’re in a really tenuous place of, if we are able to’t present, what ought to individuals do?”
However whereas fewer fundraising occasions and grants are making it tougher for the soup kitchen to seek out funds, the necessity for its providers is rising.
The group supplies roughly 7,000 meals a month and Minnie Alexander is serving extra individuals now than ever earlier than.
“Final yr at the moment if we hit about 100 meals served within the night, that was a very busy night time for us,” Alexander, the night meal coordinator, mentioned.
“Now, my busiest night time was 151 meals served, so clearly the demand for a soup kitchen is large.”
With out the mandatory {dollars}, the kitchen can’t function, leaving those that depend on the meals offered by the group out within the chilly.
“Meals is large. We may by no means present meals with out it and we do nice with the meals donations,” Alexander mentioned. “Lots of people like to present meals but it surely’s tougher handy over money I believe.”
“With out the money we simply can’t hold going.”
The non-profit had been utilizing its reserves to cowl prices, however Ginther says these have now been depleted.
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