Mustard Seed desperate for help over holidays

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The Christmas Season is the busiest time of the year for the Mustard Seed. Volunteers and donations are needed!

Tessier said the Mustard Seed needs at least a few hundred volunteers between Dec. 1 and 24 to help in the food bank and help run fundraising gift-wrapping stations in local malls. “We are in a serious push to find more volunteers. It’s very broad what we’re looking for. If people want to come once or regularly, in a group or alone, anything,” he said. The Mustard Seed has also seen an unusual dip in donations, likely due to confusion over programs that were recently cancelled because of safety concerns.

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Source: Times Colonist

 

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