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West Island charity work is on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Sandra Watson is working the phones like never before. It’s one of the few ways the charity worker is able to reach out to vulnerable people during the COVID-19 crisis. “Before, I used to connect with my clients on a one-on-one basis in their homes or they would come to my work.
Now, it’s all by phone,” the program manager of the West Island Resource Centre told Global News. She connects with dozens of people a day, most of them senior citizens. “I give them ideas of activities they can do in their house; I help them connect with their families; We get their groceries delivered for them,” she said.
A lot of those groceries come from On Rock Community Services. The largest food bank in the West Island is seeing a skyrocketing demand ever
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