Spring is here, along with all the junk and dust that accumulated in your apartment over winter.
Love it or hate it, spring cleaning is upon us, and it’s a healthy practice worth adding to your to-do list. Now that Winnipeg is reacquainted with the sun, it’s time to switch out your winter wardrobe for t-shirts and flip flops. Plus, the good weather makes it easier to pile up the car with everything else you’ve been meaning to toss. Need an another incentive? Here are eight charities in Winnipeg who need your donations.
Apparel
The Clothes Closet
Fort Garry United Church, 800 Point Road (lower level)
The Clothes Closet provides work appropriate clothing, free of charge, to women who have either left an abusive situation, or who are in a job training program and are preparing for job interviews. It’s the perfect home for those too-tight heels you’re never going to wear again anyway.
Resource Assistance for Youth (RAY)
125 Sherbrooke Street
Located in the West End, RAY provides Winnipeg’s at risk-youth with basic needs like nutritious meals, crisis services, one-on-one support, and clothing. It’s a great place to bring you or your kids’ old winter coat.
Siloam Mission
300 Princess Street
This Christian organization is a lifeline for Winnipeg’s homeless. Their clothing program helps alleviate the hardships of poverty by providing dignified, warm clothing. Warm socks are always needed.
Furniture & Appliances
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Hands of Hope
Hands of Hope will come to your apartment to pick up your gently used furniture and deliver it to families in need. All you have to do is call (204) 261-8607 or email handsofh@mymts.net. Right now, they face a shortage of dressers, kitchen tables and chairs, cutlery, pots and pans, and bedding.
Centre Flavie-Laurent
540 Provencher Boulevard
This non-profit organization in St. boniface distributes furniture, appliances, household items and clothing to people in need at no cost. Here’s a list of items they need:
- frames, mattresses & bedding & dressers
- Cribs & baby accessories
- Kitchen tables & chairs
- Sofas & living rm chairs Chests
- Dishes & cutlery Pots & pans
- washers, dryers, fridges, freezers
Bikes
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The WRENCH
1057 Logan Avenue
Just because your bike is broken doesn’t make it garbage. The WRENCH is a non-profit organization in the Exchange District that will happily take your old bike, fix it, then sell it for a more-then reasonable price. Their earn-a-bike is a great option if you want to save some money and learn to fix your own bike.
The Bike Dump
631 Main Street
This volunteer-run, community bike education space is located downtown and appreciates donated old bikes, bike parts, tools, and cash. They strive to make biking accessible to everyone and offer workshops to help you build your own bike.
Books
The John Howard Society of Manitoba
583 Ellice Avenue
This charity in the West End helps improve literacy for inmates in the Winnipeg Remand Centre who want to improve skills needed for school, work and parenting. They’re always in need of softcover books with new titles, especially popular fiction, and nonfiction such as biographies.
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