New Face of the Poor

One of our Food Bank volunteers, Mariah, is organizing “A Meet with Heart” at Pacific Raceways to benefit SVdP for her Senior Project. Mariah is a senior at Tahoma High School and attends Bellevue College as a running start student. Mariah began volunteering at the SVdP Georgetown Food Bank more than a year ago: “I…

Thank you K2 Sports for donating two pallets of new merchandise to our Thrift Stores! Shoppers – look for this merchandise in stores now!

Written by a Staff Member at SVdP: I met Illiya earlier this week in SVdP’s Georgetown Food Bank where he was volunteering. He was wearing a wool Seahawks hat and a big smile. The next time I saw Illiya was this morning on my way to work when standing on the corner of Fourth Avenue…

St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle|King County would like to thank Wilcox Farms for donating four pallets of eggs, equaling 2,491 pounds, to our Georgetown Food Bank last month. Today, we served 1,434 people from 386 households in our Food Bank. We are able to help our neighbors in need with donations from great local…

A participant in our Veteran Program, Operation Veteran Renewal, recently moved into permanent housing with next to nothing. He had been honorably discharged from the military, after serving two years in the Air Force.  He was successfully transitioning into civilian life until an unrelated injury eventually led to homelessness. Thanks to the generosity of our…

On the last day of the year, we had some great volunteers help serve 1,837 people from 528 households in our Georgetown Food Bank. Let’s hope that 2014 is a better year for our neighbors in need.