Dauphin Church of Christ is doing its part to help with affordable housing in the city, with the construction of the first of four four-plexes at Parkland Crossing.

Even though it is a small church, Pastor Wayne Olson said they love the community and want to see it do better.

One of the issues they hope to deal with involves food poverty for children. According to Olson, Dauphin is fifth worst in Canada for food poverty for children.

“Our church helps with some of the schools in doing meals and helping support some of the programs at Whitmore and the middle school. That’s a big concern in our community,” he said.

Another issue, Olson said, is affordable housing.

“We haven’t built affordable housing. So we’ve been thinking about doing affordable housing for a long, long time. It’s probably been on our hearts for 10 years. But to build anything, everything takes a lot of money,” he said.

Last year, the Church received a grant from the City, which got the money from Manitoba Housing.

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