If The Humanity Project can complete the purchase of the former Moncton Curling Club building as their permanent home, another organization will also benefit.
What Kids Need Moncton Founder Amanda Pooley says her organization looks to fill gaps in services that are provided to families.
“Started with taking second hand toys and passing them off to families, it expanded to clothing, now has a tutoring program, we do Feed The Community with The Humanity Project,” says Pooley. “We have a Christmas Program coming up, last year we had over 350 kids on our Christmas List.”
She was asked how to justify receiving several hundred thousand dollars of support from the City of Moncton.
“You can justify it just by looking at Feed The Community where we’re feeding over 150 people a night on average, and a lot of those are small children, families, working poor, we see everybody that comes in there,” says Pooley. “People need to eat, it’s a necessity, so that’s why we’re taking the money.”
Pooley says they’ve had space trouble since earlier this year.
“We had donated space until then, but the company that was donating the space had found someone to rent it, so we needed to move out and we were hoping to move into the MCA at that time but there were difficulties getting everything set up,” says Pooley.
She says they will be ready to set up their drop in centre immediately after the sale is successful.
