By Tanya Cronin

Home Hardware Kamloops gives United Way’s Days of Caring a big boost

Jun 5, 2018 | 4:56 PM

KAMLOOPS — Home Hardware Kamloops is stepping up in a big way, partnering up with United Way Thompson Nicola Cariboo, and taking the lead on the Days of Caring initiative. 

The new sponsorship kicked off this morning at the Family Tree Family Centre downtown, where Home Hardware employees rolled up their sleeves to remove hedges and build a fence in the front yard of the organization. This project has been on the centre’s wish list for years, and will provide a protected area for children to safely play.

“We have lots of kids that are coming in and out all the time, and having a fence gives us that extra barrier and it’s going to make a huge difference for us to keep them safe, and make sure they don’t run out into the street, says Susan Wright, executive director of Family Tree Family Centre. “The second part of that is we had hedges there before that gathered a lot of miscellaneous items that could be a little bit dangerous cleaning up and certainly dangerous for kids.” 

Over the past three years, United Way’s Days of Caring has seen hundreds of people offer volunteer hours to tackle improvement projects at several local non-profit organizations. Partnering up with Home Hardware will now enable United Way to expand this much needed initiative. 

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“An amazing partnership just because we’re out there able to help out these non-profits that are able to then help out so many more people in the community, so it’s been a great partnership and we’re really excited to see what projects we have moving forward and obviously for our guys to help out with the Family Tree, it’s really community based and that’s what we’re focusing on here, says Brian Hamilton, Home Hardware store manager.”