Lethbridge soup kitchen needs support

By Letter to the Editor on November 13, 2021.

Editor:
Recently the Lethbridge soup kitchen has been struggling to raise funds to cover the needs of its operations.
The City provides only nominal funding to the Soup Kitchen: giving the use of the building they are housed in rent-free for a total support of less than $40k annually.
It is my hope that the City will consider reallocating funds from extraneous enforcement agencies like the Watch, to help support programs like the soup kitchen, which are tackling the same social issues and problems from opposite ends.
Since we already have a generously funded Lethbridge Police Service, it only makes sense to me that we ought to provide some funding assistance to the very necessary work of the soup kitchen, and it grieves me greatly that such assistance is not already available.
It seems strange to me that the City would put funding into a new program, rather than supporting a program that has already proven effective at reaching the desired people and providing them much-needed assistance.
Kelti Baird
Lethbridge