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Help Us Build a Playground!
Children who live at St. Vincent de Paul were asked to draw their dream playgrounds recently, when sponsors from KaBOOM! and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group visited us. Now we need 250 volunteers on May 31 to help us build our new playground. Sign up today!
Kids Cheer Louisville Cardinals
Thanks to the generosity of St. Vincent de Paul donor Phil Gahm, children who live in our supportive housing programs for formerly homeless families got to enjoy the thrill of watching a Louisville Cardinals men’s basketball game at the KFC Yum! Center recently. Read more about the donation that made this fun field trip possible!
Kids Root for Cardinals
Thanks to the generosity of St. Vincent de Paul donor Phil Gahm, children who live in our supportive housing programs for formerly homeless families got to enjoy the thrill of watching a Louisville Cardinals men’s basketball game at the KFC Yum! Center recently. Gahm, through his charity the Champ Foundation, donated use ofhis arena suite…
Editorial: Changing A Neighborhood
Posted by The Record on April 3, 2013 in Editorials & Commentary
A little less than three years ago the Society of St. Vincent de Paul began a remarkable effort to transform a decaying part of downtown Louisville.
It was on Nov. 11, 2010, that ground was first broken on the $10.6 million project that the society’s executive director, Ed Wnorowski, called an “out of the box” effort for St. Vincent de Paul.
Out of the box or not, the project to essentially transform an entire city block is working. The block, surrounded by Preston and Jackson streets on the west and east and by Kentucky and St. Catherine streets on the north and south, has been the scene of earth-moving, brick-laying, hammering and painting and everything else that goes hand-in-hand with such an effort.
New housing units have been built on the block’s northeast corner and on the south side of the block where St. Catherine St. curves like an unattended water hose. There is also housing for clients with disabilities and a building to house women who are trying to leave homelessness in the rear view mirror.
Kids Design Dream Playground
Children who live at St. Vincent de Paul were encouraged to draw pictures of what their dream playgrounds would look like when representatives from KaBOOM! and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group visited the Open Hand Kitchen last Tuesday afternoon. Their drawings will be incorporated into the final design for a new community playground to be…
St. Vincent de Paul Hosts Special Easter Meal
From WHAS11.comMarch 31, 2013 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – An estimated 250 people were served a warm Easter meal at St. Vincent De Paul’s Open Hand Kitchen Sunday. The annual feast was free and opened to everyone in the community. The soup kitchen serves hot meals every day of the week to men, women and children in…
March 2013 Good Samaritan
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In Recovery, Rickey’s Learning to Read
Rickey Saunders is a soft-spoken man who has battled alcoholism for years. “Alcohol has always been a bad problem for me,” says Rickey, 55. “I was a black-out drinker; I would wake up places and not know where I was. I had a hard time quitting.”
An Arkansas native, he was living in Louisville when he became homeless a year ago. He went to Texas and found seasonal work picking oranges. Wandering from Corpus Christi to San Antonio, he slept in the streets or in homeless encampments, shelters and rescue missions.
In Austin, he was given a Greyhound bus ticket to come back to Louisville, eventually landing on the doorstep of St. Vincent dePaul’s Ozanam Inn men’s homeless shelter last July 2. He entered SVDP’s DR (Dormitory Residency) Program, which guaranteed him a bed every night, and gave him the support of SVDP’s case management services.
March & April Donations Fight Hunger
St. Vincent de Paul’s Open HandK itchen serves lunch and dinner seven days a week, 365 days a year to anyone in need. That’s more than 120,000 free meals each year. Donations of cash and food are crucial to the ongoing operation of this outreach. And there is no better time to donate than in…
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