With many weeks of winter still ahead, several Drayton Valley residents unfortunate enough to not have a place to warm up during these cold winter months can now warm up thanks to Drayton Valley’s Warming Hearts.
Kelly Forster, President of the Warming Hearts Soup Kitchen Society, explains a little bit about what Warming Hearts is.
“We finally have a shelter running after 10 years. It’s been running since the 16th of December. We are hoping to run seven days a week. We are up to five right now,” says Forster. “We have amazing volunteers. We can actually let them have showers now and they can do laundry. We have food, we have a lady coming in from FCSS, she’s helping get the I.D. for them in passport form.”
Forster comments on the number of homeless attending the shelter.
“Well we do have quite a few homeless and we have a few more this year and there are multiple residents, so I mean its a place for them to gather, a place for them to get the support they need and just know that they are not alone.”
In Drayton Valley, officials estimate there are about 100 people experiencing homelessness, which is increasing compared to what the community saw before the pandemic.
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