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Thanksgiving and

                     Christmas


          We prepared holiday meals in to-go
          containers this year for patrons to pick
          up. Most meals were delivered by
          volunteers to individuals and families
          who could not pick up their meals and
          residents of senior housing who could
          not be with family due to Covid-19                    Volunteers preparing take-out meals for
          restrictions.                                            Thanksgiving dinner in our kitchen.

            550 Thanksgiving dinners
            581 frozen turkeys and trimmings            Park Congregational Church in Norwich and dozens
             distributed through our Food Pantry         of volunteers bought children’s gifts for Christmas.
            579 Christmas dinners                       We distributed gifts to kids in over 80 families.
            550 Miracle Bags with hygiene
             items, hats, gloves and $10 gift            St. David’s Episcopal Church in Gales Ferry held
                                                         their annual Christmas party at SVDPP. Instead of
             cards                                       seeing Santa indoors, patrons drove by to wave at
            450 gifts to children
                                                         Santa who put bags of gifts in each car trunk.



                                                             FREE MONTHLY COVID-19 TESTING

                                                        St. Vincent de Paul Place was one of the first agencies
                                                        in Norwich to offer free walk up Covid-19 testing on
                                                        site to anyone in need.  Our first event was hosted in
                                                        June in our parking lot by Hartford Health Care. We
                                                        continued monthly testing with Generations Family
                                                        Health Center. Our partners provided 534 free tests
                                                        from June to December.








              COMMUNITY CLEAN UPS
          The pandemic may have delayed the
          start of the 2020 RISE Community
          Clean Ups, but it did not dampen the
          enthusiasm of all the volunteers. In five
          months, members from Reliance Health,
          Last Green Valley, SVdPP and many
          others collected 20,520 pounds of trash              Generations Family Health Center staff clean and
          from our neighborhoods with masks and              prepare to administer Covid-19 tests outside SVDPP.
          social distancing.
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