A Better Winnipeg Together

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ALL THAT KIDS CAN BE
Winnipeggers have warm hearts
Bev Goodchild with the wool hats she knitted for Koats for Kids this year. Bev has been knitting and donating for six years.
Winnipeggers again showed how warm their hearts are this
year by supporting our 27th annual United Way Koats for
Kids drive.
More than 6000 donated coats and thousands of hats, mitts,
scarves and boots were distributed, with the help of over
400 volunteers contributing 1500+ hours to help sort, clean,
mend and deliver donations.
Many children and school groups organized collection drives,
while amazing people like Bev Goodchild — who has knitted
hundreds of hats for Koats for Kids over the last six years —
showed their caring through personal donations. Past and new
supporters from the business community, including Carbone
Coal Fired Pizza, Sobeys, and Buy Rite Business Furnishings,
made wonderful contributions this year. And in November
Koats for Kids received its largest ever single donation of 100
complete sets of winter gear from TruGreen Metal Recycling.
The generosity shown by these individuals and organizations is
emblematic of Winnipeg’s kindness and caring spirit.
178,000
ITEMS SINCE 1989
All children deserve warm winter gear so they can
go to school and play outside with their friends
without risk to their health.
It has always been the goal of Koats for Kids to keep all
children safe and warm during Winnipeg’s frigid winters, and
since 1989 more than 178,000 winter gear items have been
distributed to Winnipeg infants, children and youth. Without
the generosity of thousands of Winnipeggers each year it
would not be possible. Thank you so much.
TruGreen Metal Recycling
president Miguel Catellier
with some of his company’s
Koats for Kids donation — the
largest single donation ever!
Grades 5 & 6 students
at Sister MacNamara
School helped kick
off the Koats for Kids
program last September.
UNITED WAY WINNIPEG ANNUAL REPORT 2015–16