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Neighbours Helping Neighbours expands across Manitoba

The Salvation Army, with support from Manitoba Hydro, has expanded its Neighbours Helping Neighbours program to reach out to all residents of Manitoba.

This energy assistance program provides low income individuals, families and seniors who are unable to pay their energy bill due to personal hardship or crisis with:

• referrals to community support services, counseling and job training;
• one-time emergency funding to assist with energy bills.

Neighbours Helping Neighbours relies on private and corporate donations to fund its services. Manitoba Hydro matches all program donations dollar for dollar.

“Just going home and realizing that I had finally stepped one little step forward made it much easier for me to want to keep going… From this support, the realization that I could do something, made me feel much better about myself… Yesterday I started back to work at a casual position. Now I can see I can even make more progress in turning my financial circumstances around… Thank you Neighbours Helping Neighbours.”

— Karen, Manitoba Hydro Customer

Taken from the MB Hydro website