Ladies Of Charity Of Chatanooga Inc

Social service ministry - assistance is provided in area's of rent, utilities, medical, food, gas, legal fee's and non-cash assistance as in clothing and household goods.

Annual christmas program for the community to enjoy. For 2024, 96 families including 308 children including one homless person were served from the angel tree at st jude catholic church.

Free lunch program - 50 sandwiches and fruit are distributed every friday we are open. These sandwiches are made with mainly donated items. This is 2600 served.

Layette program - we have partnered many organizations some of which include erlanger and park ridge hospitals and hamilton county health dept. They give their indigent patients layettes. Each layette includes a new basket, diapers/wipes and bottles. Hand made quilts/blankets. Also clothing, bibs, pacifiers etc. Approx 50 items are in each layette with a value of $600, 99 layettes were distributed in 2024. We have volunteers who make baby quilts and blankets for the layettes. The ladies auxiliary and our thrift store had baby showers for our layette program. We received clothing left over from 2 consigement sales valued at approximately $ 4500 in clothing and items. We received $2835 in donations for ur layette program.

Reta Rogers Easter Basket Program - Donations are collected and accepted for this program. We have partnered with St Jude School who does a Lenten Project of collecting items for these baskets. The Ladies of Charity buys all the chocolate bunnies for the baskets. The baskets are sold from the resale store for $10 each. There were 270 baskets made this year.