Burlington residents with the sofa they donated to the Rotary Furniture Bank.
Since 2020, Rotary Burlington North has run a furniture bank to support women and children leaving shelters, people transitioning from homelessness, and refugees or other people living in furniture poverty.The program collects gently used furniture from the Burlington community, with one furniture collection day scheduled monthly. Donors can visit rotaryburlingtonnorth.com, navigate to the furniture bank section, and complete the Donate Furniture Form. Agencies supporting people in need of furniture can access the Request Furniture tab on the same website. As a result, the furniture bank is the single largest generator of traffic to our club website.
Operated by approximately eight volunteers, the program has assisted 254 families (including 406 adults and 411 children) since it began. In the last three years alone, it has provided over 2250 furniture items valued close to $160,000.
PHOTO 2: From left to right: Rotarian Clinton Howell, Rotarian Tom Laube, community volunteer Shayne LaPlante, Friend of Rotary Linda Howell, Rotarian Kate Johnston.
PHOTO 3: From left to right - Rotarians Tom Laube, Brian Gould, Kate Johnston, Hal Hirte.
Submitted by:
Kate Johnston
Rotary Club of Burlington-North
