WINDSOR — Fears over COVID-19 are having an impact on Windsor's homeless population.
Street Help, a Windsor drop-in centre on Wyandotte St, is adjusting its operations, to be a take-out facility.
"To ask these people to sit in a confined space where they are more susceptible is unrealistic," says administrator Christine Wilson-Furlonger.
She hopes to offer take-out by Wednesday or Thursday.
"We want to make sure that people still get food and other priority needs," she says. "But we have to protect them and we have to think about protecting ourselves and our volunteers."
Wilson-Furlonger says the centre serves hundreds of meals a day.
"At any given moment, we probably have 40-50 people easily and we are open 9 until 6," she says. "We have a continuous food production and service during those hours, so we easily serve 200 and 300 people a day."
Wilson-Furlonger says volunteers need to buy food containers and different types of food such as fresh vegetables, fruit, granola bars and cold meats.
She has also put in a request to the city to put a garbage container outside of the facility.
Anyone who wants to help or make a financial donation to cover the cost of food containers, can call Street Help at 519-977-9200.