United Way Centraide of Greater Montreal is launching a campaign to solicit donors to help the many households that are struggling to find housing and are faced with rising food and gas prices.
The campaign comes as the agencies supported by Centraide are also facing the same price increases.
Centraide President and Executive Director Claude Pinard said on Thursday that the organization has set itself the goal of reaching $64 million this year.
Centraide of Greater Montreal supports 350 agencies, which help 800,000 people in various ways.
"This year, inflation has worsened the already precarious situation of many households, already affected by the repercussions of the pandemic," said Pinard.
Thus, aid agencies are seeing clients that they did not see before.
"Many are workers who can't make ends meet," people who "even with two jobs have trouble getting by," he said.
He said that for aid organizations, too, operating costs have increased, such as gasoline for transportation and food that they also have to buy.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on Sept. 22, 2022.
