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1JustCity's Gift Guide

Welcome to 1JustCity's Online Gift Guide.

Your gift has power and gives power to those who are underloved and underserved. Your gift helps build the capacity people need to take steps towards a better life. You are changing lives, one gift at a time.

To give a gift, click SUPPORT NOW under the item or program you'd like to support. We'll do our best to ensure your donation goes where it's intended but if that need is satisfied, it will go where it's needed most.

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Nourish Your Neighbours | Connections and Community | More Than Surviving the Day | Connecting to Indigenous Culture | A Dignified Life | The Power of Pets | Just a Warm Sleep | The Joy of Celebration

Nourish Your Neighbours

Food is the cornerstone of life. With your help, we can provide guests with the meals they so desperately need to make it through another day - and then help them access sustainable food sources so every day is not an emergency.

Meal Programs

The meal program is well-known with our sites. In addition to donated food, we need to purchase food to ensure our guests receive nutritious meals. Our guests deserve healthy, beautifully crafted meals, and your donation can make that happen at all three of our sites.

Breakfast Program

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Our breakfast program is a favourite amongst our guests. They make a reservation early in the week and show up Friday morning to restaurant-quality service. They get to choose their meal from a menu, and are served tableside. This meal is so much more than food — it’s an expression of love. Your donation can be that expression of love.

Emergency & Supplemental Food

Some guests need food immediately to prevent starvation. Our emergency food kits are an occasional, short-term solution to help guests who are in danger keep themselves and their loved ones fed.

Our supplementary food kits provide guests with 4 melas worth of ingredients for an individual. If a guest is low on food or if their money isn’t able to stretch to the end of the month, the supplementary food kits offer them a recipe card, picture, and all the ingredients needed to make simple and nutritious meals.

As a donor, donating to help supply our emergency and supplementary food kits is a tangible and practical way to express love to our guests.

Nourishment

Connections and Community

For many of us, evenings are often spent connecting with friends and family. Unfortunately, evenings are very long and isolating for our guests. Our evening activities give them the opportunity to create their own circle of friends and build trust and community to drive away the lonely times. It also bridges the time between our daytime drop-in and our overnight shelter. Your support helps provide meaningful and fulfilling experiences for our guests.

Host a Book Club

Book Club

Host a Movie Night

Outdoor Movie Screening

Host a Cooking Class

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Host a Bingo Night

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Host a Karaoke Night

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Connections

More Than Surviving the Day

When you are constantly looking for enough food to survive, there is nothing else. You lose the moments that make the difference between surviving and living. That is why, in addition to our food programs, our guest activities exist: so people can experience the little joys that make us feel whole. Your donation helps people take a break from the stress of their reality.

Beach Day

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Everyone needs respite from the everyday. We find one of our guests' favourite activities is for us to rent buses and help them get out of the city for a few hours to experience nature and frivolity. This event is so important to our guests that as winter comes to an end, guests are anxious to get the date of our beach trip!

Art Class

Art is a form of self-expression and many of our guests also see it as a form of therapy. Our art programs allow guests to express themselves in creative and therapeutic ways.

Field Trips

There are certain experiences that just aren’t fun or aren’t affordable for our guests to do on their own. In the summer months, we take our guests on a number of field trips including Fort Whyte Alive, Goldeyes games, Winnipeg Blue Bomber games, and more.

Activities

Connecting to Indigenous Culture

Many of our guests are disconnected from their Indigenous culture and unable to heal from past trauma. Our goal is to provide Indigenous-lead support to help our guests feel safe to explore who they are, to awaken their spirit and to give them an opportunity to be proud of their culture.

You can join us on the journey of reconciliation by helping us provide culturally appropriate Indigenous programs for our guests.

Reconciliation Events

A large part of our Indigenous Cultural Program revolves around education, both for Indigenous and non-Indigenous guests, staff, and volunteers. Our Reconciliation Event’s provide an educational environment where folks can learn about Indigenous life and culture. The community is invited to participate in an event that supports the journey towards reconciliation for all.

Indigenous Programs

Sharing Circles, smudges, and beading are just a few of the Indigenous programs 1JustCity offers. We do our best to help guests connect to their culture and awaken their spirit through culturally-appropriate programs led by staff and volunteers of Métis, Inuit, and Indigenous descent.

Cultural Events & Exhibits

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Part of reconnecting with one's culture means experiencing it. We take our Indigenous guests on outings to places like Quamajaq (the Winnipeg Inuit Art Gallery) to help them experience and learn about their cultures.

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A Dignified Life

There’s no denying how much better a shower, freshly washed clothes or a new haircut can make you feel. By donating, you’re helping provide the everyday necessities — including showers, laundry, seasonal clothing, washrooms, haircuts, hygiene items and more — to ensure our guests live a more comfortable, dignified life.

Your support will help transform the lives of our guests.

Hygiene

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You can provide guests with items such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, feminine hygiene products, shampoo and conditioner, and more to ensure they’re feeling clean and comfortable. Since we don’t have much storage it helps if we can buy items as they are needed.

Clothing & Laundry

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A clean set of clothes can make a big difference in how the world perceives our guests. You can provide guests with fresh, clean clothing so they can feel fresh and comfortable.

Dignity Washroom

Having access to clean, accessible washrooms is a human right. Having nowhere to relieve yourself is uncomfortable, undignified, and humiliating. This is a feeling many of our unsheltered guests know all too well. You can support our dignity washroom to make sure those in need have a clean, bright, safe space to relieve themselves.

Healthcare

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Many of our guests don't have access to healthcare, especially orthopedics. Our guests depend on their feet as their major mode of transportation. By supporting the healthcare program, you help keep their feet (and the rest of their bodies) in shape and prevent serious issues from making it impossible for them to remain mobile.

Dignity

Pets

The Power of Pets

Pets are companions for life. For our guests, pet ownership can provide stability, responsibility and love that is beneficial to their mental health. We provide pet-friendly spaces and supports so our guests are better able to keep their pets in good health – and so their pets, in turn, can provide them with constant love, acceptance and companionship.

Your support will be used for food, vaccinations and unexpected vet bills.

Pet Supplies

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Pets deserve to stay warm in the winter, too. You can donate towards buying winter coats and booties to help keep our guest’s furry friends safe and warm throughout the winter. You can make sure each pet is vaccinated against disease, or their teeth get cleaned to keep them in good health.

Pet Food

Just like people food, pet food can be a huge expense for low-income families and individuals. You can provide a donation for pet food for guests so they can feed their furry friends.

Pet Health Care

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Keeping our pets healthy is key to helping them live a long, happy life. When a guest’s pet is in need, you can help get them the healthcare they need.

Just a Warm Sleep

Everyone deserves a safe, warm sleep. The Just a Warm Sleep program provides housing support and eviction prevention in addition to our shelter that gives up to 30 people a warm night’s sleep from November to March.

Your donation helps guests access the resources they need to get a home, keep a home, and have a safe, warm sleep.

The Shelter

Just a Warm Sleep (JAWS) provides guests who are unhoused or living in unstable situations a warm, safe place to sleep during the winter. It’s one of the only no-barrier shelters in Winnipeg, meaning they can bring in any belongings they have, sleep next to their partners, bring in pets, and use the shelter even if they’re inebriated or using, so long as they aren’t disruptive. Your support has given the most vulnerable people in our city a warm, accepting place to spend those cold winter nights. You can continue being their hero by supporting our 30 bed shelter!

Eviction Prevention

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Eviction is an everyday threat. There are more people threatened with eviction each day than we see who are without a home. Your donation can provide them the help they need to prevent an eviction. That might look like someone helping them declutter their place, or a little assistance with the rent, paying for a damage deposit, providing weekly support for the first 3 months. It might mean working out a plan with the landlord, or putting in some services to help the individual stay housed.

Housing Support

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Your support makes it possible for people who are without a home to get assistance with every step of the housing process, from getting the proper ID needed, EI assistance, applications, viewing, finding furniture and moving it in, providing a new bed for the person to get a restful sleep.

JAWS

The Joy of Celebration

Be a Celebrator

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Celebrations can help make us feel united in joy. At our sites we acknowledge many of the traditional holidays to make sure our guests feel special too, by treating them to a variety of celebrations. This could include a special meal or treat with decorations, music or goodies to take with them.

Be a celebrator and bring the gift of feeling celebrated and special to people who are often ignored and feel they don’t belong.

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