There is more and more need for adequate housing and affordable food, not only in the tri-community, but in Canada as a whole. The Pas Friendship Centre is fully aware of the amount of people living on the streets and how many are going without food on a daily basis. This sparked the project of building a new soup kitchen in the community, to help those in need.
“There was an apparent need to build a new soup kitchen based on the fact that many of our street population had nowhere to go or get anything to eat during the day,” said The Pas Friendship Centre Executive Director Doug Bartlett. “Oscar’s Place is only open from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., and they would provide a quick meal in the evening. The people who spent the night there, would then have to leave in the morning and go all day with nothing else to eat.