Louisville Metro’s Office for Women this week held a community convening on preventing human trafficking. Watch Spectrum One’s coverage here, and see Tamar Israel, Bakhita Empowerment Initiative’s prevention education coordinator, being interviewed.
WDRB was there last week as teams set up an apartment for a family of five arriving from Uganda. Thanks to Tom Dunn and Lay Cho for filling them in on our need for couches, dining tables, and adult bikes for the 128 refugees we expect to resettle in the next month.
Great Day Live did a feature on Food Measures, a program that coaches people in improving their health through their foods and cooking. Sister Visitor Center regularly partners with Good Measures to provide top nutrition options to clients there.
WLKY news on February 27 reported on the sharp rise in need at Sister Visitor Center, including the food pantry, where visits have quadrupled over the last two years, from 517 in January 2021 to 2,013 in January 2023. Thanks to the entire SVC team for meeting the sharply increasing needs not only for food but for emergency financial assistance with rent and utilities. Your work helps keep people in their homes. Thank you.
You can watch the report here.
Lisa has started making the rounds on local television to promote our biggest annual fundraiser, Rouler! Watch her here on WHAS, or below. Get your discounted staff tickets at cclou.org/rouler23. Sign up to volunteer here. Proceeds from Rouler go to support YOUR program!
Ashes found in a plastic bag were brought to our Indigent Burial Program recently. Watch a report from WHAS-11 here.
Our Bakhita Empowerment Initiative contributed to the first of two educational programs to inform local professionals on understanding, recognizing, and responding to human trafficking in Louisville. Here’s a clip from WLKY coverage of the event.
Eh Nay Thaw, refugee resettlement caseworker, represented Catholic Charities of Louisville on WFPL’s live show, In Conversation, last Friday. The show focused on the experiences of refugees who have resettled in Louisville. Eh Nay represented us well, the perspective of both one who has resettled here and one who serves others making the same journey. Thank you, Eh Nay! You made us proud.
