Category Archives: Open Hands

Fresh For Less

What is Fresh for Less?

Fresh for Less is a food purchasing club created to help families & individuals have year-round access to fresh fruit and vegetable at affordable prices.

Club members who pay $20.00 at the due date of each month and will receive a produce box on the last Wednesday of that month.

Who is running this program?

Visions' volunteers are partnering with the John Howard Society to offer this program from the Community Hub on Joyce.

How do I pay for my order?

Preferred method is E-transfer to etransfer@visionsunited.ca for payment

  • Put Fresh for less in the email subject
  • There is no requirement to participate every month

For more information or in-person payment:

How do I get my order once I have paid?

The orders can be picked up at the HUB (140 Joyce Ave)

  • all participants are notified where and when to pickup their boxes
  • special delivery can be arranged under certain circumstances
  • boxes are provided once per month

Preparing the boxes

Dedicated Volunteers

Fresh Groceries

The orders may vary month to month depending on the season but the base order will always include:

  • 5 lb Potatoes
  • 2 lb Carrots
  • 2 lb Onions
  • Apples, Bananas, Oranges

There will be other fruit and vegetables depending on what is available

For example:

  • lettuce
  • tomatoes
  • cucumber
  • pears
  • broccoli
  • etc

How can I participate?

To become a member by filling out the registration form

  • Pay the $10.00 non-refundable admin fee. Plus (+) pay 20.00 – regular, pay 17.00 – seniors (60+)
  • Offline option - DOWNLOAD and PRINT and return to office, or scan and email
  • Online option - Fill out the form below

Online - Register Here

Fresh for Less

This Community Hub project is a partnership between the John Howard Society of Southeastern New Brunswick and Visions United Church.

Giving Hands – Summer 2020

"Open Hands" - In the Summer 2020...

Your Visions Aid Fund at Work

Donation highlights:

  • HeadStart  ($500)
  • Reconnect ($257.45)

Our giving hands haven’t been able to be quite so generous during these times of physical isolation. We are missing the ReConnect jar for your small change, the Recycling dollars and the grocery cards given regularly to Karing Kitchen. Thanks to those who give by PAR we have some funds available to make one or two donations each month.

If you would like to contribute for the summer months please mail in a cheque made out to Visions United Church with a note/memo that it is for "Vision Aid". It will be received with deep gratitude!

HEADSTART
In June your donations to the Visions Aid Fund enabled us to give $500 to Headstart for their backpack program. This year there will be a very different format. Parents will be called and asked for a list of what they need. Backpacks will be packed for each child and parents will be given a designated time to come to the yard to pick them up.

  • If you would also like to make a personal donation, cheques made out to Moncton Headstart Inc. with “school supplies” in the memo line can be mailed to them at 1111 Mountain Road, Moncton, NB, E1C 2S9.
  • Calculators, construction paper and pencil sharpeners are also badly needed and can be dropped off or mailed.

RECONNECT
In August we sent a donation of $257.45 to ReConnect: $200 from Visions Aid Fund, and an additional $57.45 received from your summer donations.
ReConnect needs our help more than ever. Homeless people can no longer find relief from the heat in public places like the library or mall. ReConnect’s outreach team has set up a misting tent at Avenir and is busy giving out food, water and clothing.

  • Please continue to turn in your recyclables and forward a cheque to Visions United so that we can pass it on to ReConnect.

CROSS CANADA PANDEMIC PILGRIMAGE

The Visions Aid Team, with the expertise and support of Terry MacTavish-Hawkes, organized and planned the summer pilgrimage project. Our July "Giving Hand" highlights this activity for our summer sabbath month.

 

Visit the pilgrimage page on the website to read about this virtual adventure:

Giving Hands – Spring 2020

"Open Hands" - In the Spring 2020...

Your Visions Aid Fund at Work

Donation highlights:

  • ReConnect  ($400)
  • Karing Kitchen ($200)
  • Inclusion Advocacy ($200)
  • Crossroads for Women ($400)
  • Camp Ta-Wa-Si Virtual Camp ($500)

In March the Karing Kitchen donations that we received in February were forwarded.  We made a donation to Inclusion Advocacy which works to help those with intellectual disabilities attain full inclusion in community life. In April we gave from our Vision Aid fund to ReConnect  and to Crossroads for Women, organizations that providing safe housing, education and counseling for women and children in crisis. Our May donation went to Camp Ta-Wa-Si to help with the new virtual camp they are setting up for this summer.

Our giving hands haven’t been able to be quite so generous during these times of physical isolation. We are missing the ReConnect jar for your small change, the Recycling dollars and the grocery cards given regularly to Karing Kitchen. Thanks to those who give by PAR we have some funds available to make one or two donations each month.

If you would like to contribute for the summer months please mail in a cheque made out to Visions United Church with a note/memo that it is for "Vision Aid". It will be received with deep gratitude!

 

Giving Hands – Winter 2020

"Open Hands" - In the Winter 2020...

Each hand shows donations to Reconnect and Karing Kitchen.  In addition

In December:

  • we supported to Moncton Headstart Toyland,
  • the John Howard Society for Tim Horton’s gift cards
  • and the Salvus Clinic helping the homeless.

In January two services were cancelled due to snowstorms so there were no additional donations.

In February a donation was made to the YouthQuest fundraiser

  • Coldest Night of the year.

 

 

InclusionAdvocacy-October

Inclusion Advocacy SENB

This Association was initially formed in 1984 and was incorporated in 1987 as the Greater Moncton Association for Community Living.

In 2016 it was re-branded as Inclusion Advocacy SENB.

The purpose of the Association is to ensure that appropriate supports are in place for people with an intellectual disability to live, learn, work and participate, as valued contributing members, in their own communities.

Some of the services offered are education, individual and family support, workshops, training, public awareness and fund raising.

The Association depends on community fundraisers.

With this in mind, Visions United, from the Visions Aid fund, has recently donated $300.00 to Inclusion Advocacy SENB.

We wish them all the best in their work with families in South-East New Brunswick.

Visiting the Food Bank

The Vision Aiders were out in November to visit the Peter McKee Community Food Centre. They were taken on a tour of the facility and were excited to share their experience and some pictures with the congregation.

For more about the centre you can visit their website: http://fooddepot.ca/en/default.php