The Salvation Army is launching a Mobile Community Response Unit.
The unit, made possible through a $20,000 grant from the Sarnia-Lambton United Way, will provide hot and cold food to those in need across the county.
It will initially focus on the homeless and individuals considered hard to house during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The grant is the first the United Way has issued from the Emergency Community Support Fund (ECSF), which provides support for groups who've had to adapt their frontline services because of the pandemic.
“We are happy to be able to work with Salvation Army and their other funded partners to get the Mobile Community Response Unit out into our community," said Executive Director Dave Brown. "The Government of Canada funding is allowing us to continue to help Lambton County’s most vulnerable in these uncertain times."
The federal government provided the Sarnia-Lambton United Way with $334,000 to assist charities who support seniors, veterans, single mothers, persons with disabilities, newcomers and other marginalized communities through the ECSF.
A $9,000 grant was also approved Le centre communautaire francophone de Sarnia. The money will help the centre prepare and deliver hot meals for seniors and vulnerable people in Sarnia, Bright's Grove and Corunna during the pandemic.
The Sexual Assault Survivors' Centre is getting $5,000 from the ECSF to help provide up to 60 clients with safe transportation to appointments, access to food banks and groceries as well as cleaning supplies.
