Support Families In Ireland
Urgent Help Needed – Right Now
This year two SVP volunteers in Cork visited a family in financial trouble. Dad had lost his job and walked out; Mam still had her job, part-time, minimum wage for four hours a night from 8pm till midnight.
It was Wednesday night, two nights to pay day and no food in the house - well there was half a sliced pan and while Mam didn’t mind eating dry bread and drinking boiled water (no teabags) the children needed more. So in utter desperation and for the first time ever she asked for help, she phoned the Vincent de Paul.
Through the help of our volunteer and the very generous support and donations we receive, we gave this family hope. We gave them time to take a breath, to think and helped them make a plan to start again.
How you can help
This is reality for thousands of people living on the brink of poverty in Ireland today and we urgently need to raise funds in April to support families like this one. The economic crisis has impacted on all of us but no-one has been more affected than those who are experiencing consistent poverty – that means not having enough money for basic needs like fuel, hot water and food.
SVP has seen a huge increase in people calling on us for help in regions like Dublin, Cork and the Mid-West. SVP Dublin have seen almost a 100% increase in calls for assistance over the last two years . Many of these calls are coming from families with young children; in fact 65% of calls this year have come from parents with young families who requesting help to pay for food, heating, mortgage payments or other basic necessities.
The Society of St Vincent de Paul is asking people all over Ireland to think of those less fortunate and to give what they can to help others. Your donation really counts at the moment and can mean the difference between us being able to buy bread, milk and cornflakes for a family like the one we visited in Cork recently – or not.
Please support our Appeal and help people who are really struggling across Ireland.