2024-2025 Coats for Kids Special Program

Worthy Grand Knights, Financial Secretaries, Brother Knights

Hello all, I am super excited to announce this year’s campaign is ready to begin. It running a little late this year I have been waiting for a commitment from Supreme on the matching purchases.

 We have been able to hold the cost per box at $200.00 per box thanks to a supreme grant backing our large effort of putting warm coats on our kids during our cold winter months.  

Through the combined efforts of our State Board and the Sask Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation, we will order all the coats simultaneously. At least four locations in Saskatchewan will receive delivery for pick up closest to you.

It will work very similar to past years you will fill in an order form (attached) and get it to me, Shawn Scherr. I will log all the orders and distribution points closest to you and advise when you can pick them up for distribution.

In the past, we had councils that didn’t have as big of a need in their areas, here is where I ask your councils to still make any kind of donation to the project, so we have extra coats when we get special requests from the public. I have had calls from the strangest places don’t know how they find my name but it shows that our Knights name is out there and we are getting to be known for our charitable work of providing coats where there is a need.  I get calls directly from schools, and family members, with quick needs and is great when we can provide for these situations. I have had a family of six escaping a domestic situation. They were on the run with nothing I was able to provide for everyone in the family. The year before we looked after a family of nine who lost everything in a house fire. Very proud to be a Knight in those days. We had an immigrant family, and we were able to meet them at the airport with seven coats for the whole family.

Last year we distributed 633 cases, or 7600 coats let’s be ready to do it again.

I am hoping to have two deadlines so we can have coats in Provence by Thanksgiving and more by the first week in November. I will update you but don’t wait let’s have them here earlier this year.

You will find the order form attached please fill it in and email it back to me. Send a cheque to Gerry at the Foundation office Box 61 Stn Main Moose Jaw Sask S6H 4N7. Confirm with me you have sent the cheque and I will order your coats.

Thanks, Shawn

Shawn.scherr@hbc.com

306 222 9549

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