Tomato Ladies

It’s Advent Giving Tree time again.  The Tomato Ladies are honoured, once again, to be collecting donations for the Lighthouse Emergency Shelter in Oakville.

The Tomato Ladies are hopefully relaunching the dinner program at the Lighthouse Emergency Shelter in November. As well as preparing and serving dinner, we provide a gift to each resident in attendance. The gift bag is filled with items that they can use while they are in their temporary home. We assure you that the gifts are very much appreciated!  There is a change this year. The shelter is now housing for MEN only. Previously the shelter housed both men and women, but during the pandemic it was necessary to rethink their arrangements and a decision was made to house the women in another facility and they are now with a separate organization.

We are hoping you will help us fill the men’s gift bags by bringing new items as follows over the 4 weeks in Advent:

Advent 1 (Nov 28) – Entertainment – items to help distract and pass the time  

• Crossword, Sudoku, Word Search books
• decks of playing cards
• $5 Gift Cards from Tim Horton’s

Advent 2 (Dec 5) – Warmth– at this time of year these items are particularly appreciated

• Men’s hats, gloves, mitts

Advent 3 (Dec 12) – Toiletries – so nice to have your own supplies

• Shampoo (small/medium sized bottles are best)
• Deodorant
• Shaving cream
• Lip balm

Advent 4 (Dec 19) – Socks –always needed

• Men’s socks

Please bring items on a Sunday or Wednesday and they can be left under the Advent Tree in the office hallway or dropped off during office hours in the red basket at the entrance.  Thank you so much!

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The Tomato Ladies are a group of volunteers who focus on empowering people in their community to create nutritious and tasty meals with basic ingredients.

Our target audience includes clients of local food banks, residents of emergency shelters, and others interested in low cost meal preparation. We do this by:

• Developing simple, easy-to-follow recipes. Click here to view our recipes.
• Preparing and serving special home-style meals to the men and women in residence at the local emergency shelter.
• Providing life skill cooking workshops for residents at the shelter.

Learn more at tomatoladies.ca