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Free or low cost meals and food
Shower and Laundry Services
Clothing
Covenant house drop-in Centre offers youth free clothing and hygiene supplies during Drop-in hours from Monday to Friday at 9AM - 5:30PM'
Meal Schedule:
Monday to Friday:
Breakfast: 9 am - noon.
Soup & pastries: noon - 3 pm.
Dinner: 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm.
Exception: no lunch on Thursdays.
DTES Women's Centre offers free clothing and food for women at risk of violence and poverty at both of their drop-in locations. Both locations are closed on income assistance payment days:
302 Columbia Street, Vancouver | Hours: Monday - Tuesday: 10AM - 4PM, Wednesday: 11AM - 4PM, Thursday - Sunday: 10AM - 4PM. Breakfast is served at 10 AM and lunch is served at 12 PM, 7 days per week.
25 East Hastings Street, Vancouver | Hours: Monday - Friday: 12:30PM - 9:30PM. Dinner is served at 6 PM, Monday through Friday.
The Gathering place serves three meals each day at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Their kitchen offers a healthy menu, made with the freshest food possible at a low price. See the weekly menu posted here.
Breakfast: 9am – noon ($2.25)
Lunch: 11:30am – 4:30pm ($2.75)
Dinner: 4:30pm – 7pm ($3.50)
The Door Is Open is a drop-in ministry that provides food, clothing, counselling, and shelter services and referrals, located in the Downtown Eastside. They offer a free lunch program everyday with "women only" days.
Hours:
Monday: 11:00AM Lunch
Tuesday 11:00 am Lunch
♀️ Wednesday: 8:30 am, Women’s Breakfast | 10:30 am, Women’s Lunch
Thursday:11:00 am Lunch
Friday: 11:00 am Lunch
Saturday: 11:00 am Lunch
Sunday 12:00 pm Lunch
WISH provides women who are street based sex workers with a welcome space where they can eat a hot meal, use showers, or collect clothing and hygiene supplies. WISH is open to all self-identified women and gender-diverse folks who are past or present sex workers.
Hours: 6pm-12pm (the next day), 365 days of the year.
Donations Room: 6:30pm-9pm; 11:30pm-3am; 8:30am-12pm
Meal Times:
Dinner: 6pm-8pm
Evening Snack: 10pm
Overnight Snack: 1am-4am
Breakfast: 7am-9am
Morning Snack: 10:30am
YWCA Crabtree Corner offers self-identified women and their families who have experienced abuse with different programs and services which include free nutritious breakfasts and lunches, five days a week.
Breakfast hours
Monday to Friday:
8:45am-9:45am
Lunch drop-in hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday:
1:00pm- 2:30pm
Wednesday:
12:00pm-1:15pm
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