Basic Needs

United Way is helping individuals and families build a strong foundation to live healthy, stable, successful lives.

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Helping to Meet Basic Needs

In the thriving Alberta Capital Region, many families face challenges meeting basic needs. Issues like not having a safe home, enough food, or access to resources can deeply affect individuals’ health and well-being.

United Way, backed by 80 years of experience, alongside local partners, steps up to address these needs by providing access to food, emergency support, and housing assistance. Our aim with United Way? A community where everyone is supported and no one is left behind.

In 2022, 75,588 people accessed healthy meals or food hampers and 1,093 people received help to obtain or maintain housing.

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15132 Stony Plain Road Edmonton, AB T5P 3Y3

United Way’s Commitment to Reconciliation

We are all Treaty people. United Way acknowledges our connection to one another, here on Treaty 6 Territory and Métis Nation of Alberta North Saskatchewan River Territory. The diverse Indigenous Peoples of this land include the nêhiyawak, Blackfoot, Dene, Anishinaabe, Nakota Sioux, Inuit, and Métis. Many of our staff are settlers living and working in this Territory. We all have a responsibility to uphold the spirit and intent of the original treaties and build relationships, trust, and understanding. We are grateful for the resources, knowledge, and culture Indigenous people share with us as we walk the path towards reconciliation together. We honour and respect Indigenous contributions supporting our work to ensure no one in our community is left behind.

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