"The poor alone demand your time; treat them with gentleness, with tenderness, with love. They are the nobility of heaven."

~ St. Vincent de Paul

For 121 years, St. Vincent de Paul has been providing the Greater Detroit Area with more goods and services than any other charity. Annually, the Society serves over 90,000 people and has an administrative cost of just 16%. This means that 84 cents of every dollar that we take in goes to help thousands of people in need.

Services Provided by St. Vincent dePaul:

• Food programs
• Emergency financial assistance
• Emergency transportation
• Disaster relief and victim services
• Rent/mortgage assistance
• Low-cost housing
• Shelters for the homeless
• Shelters for the abused
• Assistance for victims of AIDS, substance abuse, and crime
• Thrift Stores
• Free pharmacy services
• Employment services
• Job training
• Counseling/Information
• Referral service
• Education programs (GED)
• Homemaker services
• Budget counseling
• Nutritional education
• Youth programs
• Camp programs
• Social justice programs
• Advocacy
• Twinning, foreign and domestic
• Prison Ministry
• Halfway houses for ex-offenders
• Burial of the indigent
• Embracing the lonely, forgotten, and alienated
• Service to anyone in need

For more information or to contact a SVdP representative, visit www.svdpdet.org.