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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">Dear community partners and supporters,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">The demand for our services here at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.matthewhouseottawa.org/furniture-bank-program1" title="https://www.matthewhouseottawa.org/furniture-bank-program1"><span style="color:#0078D7">Matthew
House Ottawa’s Furniture Bank</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is high all year round, however our inventory of donations becomes quite low in the winter. This forces us to have to reduce the number of clients we serve to 4 or 5 families/day
rather than up to 8 families/day in the summer months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">If you are not already familiar with our work, our Furniture Bank program provides gently used furniture and household
items to low-income families and individuals. We hope to serve more than 1500 families in 2024, and to do this we are in need of more items to provide for our clients.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">It would be greatly appreciated if you could take the time to share this email or attached flyer with your friends, family, colleagues, neighbours, and network.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424"> Helping
us spread the word of our donation collections will go a long way in helping us continue to serve our clients!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">We are always in need of the most used furniture and/or household items in your home – the items almost everyone uses each day. Beds, sofas, linens, dressers, tables, chairs, kitchen
supplies, etc.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Your support is always appreciated here at Matthew House Ottawa!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">Sincerely,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#242424">The MHO: Furniture Bank team</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">Matthew House Ottawa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.matthewhouseottawa.org/" target="_blank" title="http://www.matthewhouseottawa.org/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">www.matthewhouseottawa.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0C882A;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">In 2023, we fully furnished 1424 homes and provided a bed, food and settlement support to 219 refugee claimants.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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