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Thu 12 Dec 2009St Vincent de Paul to 'visit' 100,000 households
UP TO 100,000 households across the State will have received a hamper of toys, vouchers or food from the Society of St Vincent de Paul by this evening – an increase of 25 per cent on last Christmas.
“Some people may just get a tin of biscuits and we’re just really dropping in to see them,” explains Rose McGowan, Dublin regional president of the society, who has been volunteering with the group for 30 years. “A lot are like family if we have been seeing them for years.” Others, she says, are “newly-needy” homes and more than half have children.
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