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Bryony House is a 24 bed shelter that provides a safe housing and support services for women with, or without children who have been impacted by intimate partner abuse. Each year, approximately 470 women and children stay with us and 2,500 distress calls are answered. Our dedicated counsellors are there to answer the 24-hour distress line, provide individual/group supportive counselling, public education, advocacy and referrals. An important part of our work is to break the cycle of abuse. Women who contact us come from many walks of life, socio-economic classes and cultural backgrounds. What they have in common is that they are in, or are fleeing, an abusive intimate relationship.
It’s a home for the homeless in Halifax. It’s hope for the hopeless. It’s food for the stomach and food for the soul. It’s friendship for the lonely. It’s Souls Harbour RESCUE Mission.
Souls Harbour RESCUES people from poverty, addiction and despair, by offering emergency help, such as food and clothing, life-changing programs, and the Gospel Message.
If you haven’t a friend in the world, you can find one here, where we strive to offer welcome, hope, and dignity to each of our guests.
“Because You stand up for the poor and weak, You comfort and empower them in their distress, Giving them safe harbour and cool shade when it’s hot; You shelter them from their oppressors’ blows as a strong wall holds back the driving rain.” – Isaiah 25:4
Veith House is a multi-service non-profit located in Halifax's north end. Our mission is to meet the needs of children, families, and individuals living with the effects of poverty, with empowerment as an ever present goal. We to this through programs such as Summer Day Camp, Preschool, counseling and trustee services, and more.
Atlantic Theravada Buddhist Cultural and Meditation Society, established in January 2015, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, thrives to institute Theravada Buddhism among a wider global community, by promoting traditional Buddhist culture and emotional and spiritual growth, while disseminating the teachings of the Buddha to all irrespective of nationality and age.
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Lion's Roar Foundation aims to provide the broadest-possible access to genuine Buddhist teachings, news from the Buddhist world, personal accounts of life on the Buddhist path, and Buddhist perspectives on the conversations shaping our modern world.
The Salvation Army (Fairview Citadel) is launching its annual Christmas Kettle Campaign from Nov 22-Dec 24, and is seeking volunteers to stand alongside our kettles at various locations in Bayers Lake, Fairview and Clayton Park. Volunteer shifts are only 2 hours.
The Salvation Army recognizes that poverty is a critical issue, and that everyone has a right to access basic necessities such as nutritious food, health care, education and economic opportunity.
100% of the funds raised from this campaign stay in the community and are used to support local Salvation Army Programs for people in need including family services, food baskets, emergency shelter and addictions counseling.
For more information or to volunteer, please contact Kettle Coordinator Devin Casario at 902.809.2769 or kettlecoordinator2014@gmail.com.
Thank you for helping us meet the needs of the local community!
The Salvation Army (Fairview Citadel)
A community organization dedicated to sponsoring and settling refugees in Halifax.
The Chronicle Herald Holiday Parade of Lights presented by Eastlink is taking place on Saturday, November 19th, 2016 at 6:00pm in downtown Halifax! This year's parade will be led by the second annual Red Nose Run in support of the QEII Foundation, a fun run that follows the same route as the parade and begins at 5:45pm. We will need volunteers on the route for the run as well.
For 20 years we have relied on the help of our volunteers to help make the Holiday Parade of Lights a success. Please join us again on November 19th to help kick off the holiday season!
We are looking for volunteers in the following positions:
- Marshalling Area Line-up Coordinators
- Run Start Line
- Run Finish Line/Parade End of Route
- Parade/Run Route Team Members
Volunteer Requirements:
- All volunteers must be 16 years of age or older by November 19, 2016
- All volunteer correspondence will be done via email, please check your email often!
- Volunteers must give 24 hours notice of shift cancellation except in cases of emergency.
- If you would like to be stationed at a specific location along the parade route, please mention this in the Notes section of the application
To sign up, or for more information e-mail parade@herald.ca
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The Halifax Tool Library is a volunteer run, non-profit organization that loans tools to the community as a proud member of the sharing economy in Halifax. Our key mission is to get underused tools into the hands of people who need them. In order to make this happen we need energetic, engaged volunteers to do a variety of tasks from membership (customer) service to administration to library organization to tool maintenance and repair. We love what we do and the current corps of volunteers and our membership are DIY and sharing economy enthusiasts. The executive are constantly striving to make the volunteer experience at the HTL a fun and valuable way to share time and be social while doing an amazing thing for our community.
The Canadian Paraplegic Association (Nova Scotia) is a charitable organization providing client directed counselling and rehabilitation services, information, advocacy and support services to persons with spinal cord injuries and other mobility disabilities---and their families---throughout Nova Scotia. CPA(NS) has been providing these services and supports for over 64 years. Our mission is to assist persons with spinal cord injuries and other disabilities to achieve independence, self reliance and full community participation. We work closely with the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre in our reach to support those in need as they return to their home and their communities...your communities.
BFM Thrift Store is a volunteer driven thrift store that offers premium used goods. We help families buy affordable quality household goods as well as divert used goods from landfills. All proceeds are donated to the Bible League Canada to support its worldwide work of Bible placement.
The Halifax BFM Thrift Store building is a beautiful clean & bright new store; it is approximately 16,000 square feet which includes about 5,000 square feet of warehouse space. We opened our doors on March 22, 2014 after over two years of planning, prayers and preparation by the Steering Committee. The Store sits on 2.44 acres of land in Lower Sackville, NS and it is conveniently located near a shopping centre in a business area of the community.
Parker Street Food Bank provides help to people in need. We are a food and furniture bank, but strongly believe in the adage, "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime". Some of the opportunities for self-sufficiency have included courses in flooring installation, windows and doors installation, automotive parts clerk, siding, carpenter's assistant training and basic computer skills. We also provide back packs filled with school supplies for young students in September and at Christmas time we provide the ingredients for a traditional turkey dinner as well as toys for the wee ones. We also operate an Emergency Fund to help those in financial crisis, such as helping with utility or heating bills.
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