Caring women hope to draw givers

called street teams.

Twice a week they provide homeless people with food and water and personal care items from the goodness of their hearts.

“They treat them just like everyone else deserves to be treated,” said Haughian.

Haughian.

Members get to nominate a non-profit and three are randomly drawn from a hat.

Haughian says for her, giving back is a huge part of who she is.

It’s been harder times for charities as well as charitable groups the past few years.

The 100 + Women Who Care Lloydminster group is encouraging more members to take part in three giving circles a year, so each of them can donate $100 to one of three charities that present their case.

A total of $4,500 will go to Lloydminster and Vermilion for Equity following the recent winning pitch by representative Tigra-Lee

Campbell to the women’s giving circle at the LloydMall.

The group’s largest donation since the startup in 2017 was more than $28,600 from 286 participating women.

“We still have over 200 members, so we just need to encourage more women to come out and kind of feel the impact of 100 women,” said the organization’s co-founder Janice Haughian.

“That’s kind of what we’re hoping to do.”

Haughian thinks peo- ple are really busy and maybe they’re financially struggling with inflation and the rising cost of living, which limits their ability to give, along with a lack of awareness about the group.

“We encourage our members to still come out because they can learn about the different non-profit organizations,” she said.

Haughian says even if they can’t give financially they can still give through volunteering or acts of service.

“We still want to have a good fundraiser effort to give to non-profits, but we still think it’s important for the community to learn about the non-profits. They do such vital work in our community and we just want to support them,” she said.

Haughian says prior to their collective donation to the Lloydminster and Vermilion for Equity, most people hadn’t heard of them, while noting Campbell was in tears accepting the donation.

Haughian says that charity has something

The two other pitches for funding were made by the Lloydminster Local Immigration Partnership and Lloydminster and District SPCA.

“It’s such a hard decision every time because they all have such great presentations. You just wish you could give to all of them. They all do great work,” said

“It’s such a heartfilling event every time. You see the local impact,” she said.

“Our previous recipients come and share what their donation has done for them. In one short hour, the impact a group of people can have is just incredible and really fills your heart.”

The next donation meeting will be in May with the venue to be determined.