We are facing extremely challenging times, and we need your support to be able to continue providing our much needed services to the most marginalised and in need members of our community during this time of crisis.

During 2020 Drogheda Homeless Aid provided the following services and supports:

·   Accommodation:104 men were accommodated in our emergency 22-bed hostel

·   Resettlement services: provision of support and advice services for all residents who were helped in exiting homelessness and were supported to live independently in the community.

· Hot meals/ MOW programme: 21,500 hot meals were prepared for and provided to homeless people and those living in poverty in the community during 2020. We offer approximately 150 hot meals per week for elderly and vulnerable members of our community. We are also providing lunches for our former clients of approximatively 210 meals and 280 teas per week.

·   Social Housing: Drogheda Homeless Aid is also an approved housing body and provided transitional and long-term housing for 37 homeless men, women, and families from the Local Authority housing list during the year.

·   Prevention/Tenancy, Sustainment/Home Visiting, Supports: DHA also provided supports to prevent individuals at risk from becoming homeless and delivers a service for Louth County Council helping to support those with mental health issues in maintaining their tenancies and/or supports people with mental health issues in existing homelessness.

Drogheda Homeless Aid is a not for profit organisation  providing support and shelter for homeless men , while encouraging self-development, independent living and ultimately resettlement. We aim to restore dignity and hope by providing care, support and shelter for homeless men.

St Joseph's Hostel now caters for 22 residents at any one time. On average, 120 residents will stay in the hostel each year. Drogheda Homeless Aid is also a housing body and we have four transitional houses, all of which are two-bedroom houses, and residents from our hostel can move into them for a period of six months in order to prepare them for independent living. We also have five long-term houses social houses in which we house families from the Local Authority housing waiting lists. 

An essential part of our activity is the meal programme: Meals on Wheels, which is providing 40+ hot meals, three days per week for the elderly and vulnerable members of our community. We are also providing lunches for our former clients of over 1500 hot meals per year

DHA is providing with 3 meals per day for all our hostel residents and also providing dinner for the former residents (approx. 60 hot meals per day).

Drogheda Homeless Aid, due to the ongoing situation, had to cancel all last year fundraising events. This year, as well, had to cancel one of its biggest fundraising events, the Lenten Lunches which had been running at the St. Peter's Church of Ireland Hall for the last 12 years and which represents a valuable source of fundraising for our organisation.  We also have cancelled our summer fundraising events, including flag days. This is leaving DHA with a shortfall and we are appealing to the public to help.

Like all charitable organisations, funding is instrumental in the survival of Drogheda Homeless Aid, and we rely heavily on the goodwill of our community. Without your support, we could not continue to offer the services that we continue to provide, particularly at a time of enormous demand for shelter and food, mostly now during the current crisis.

We need your support! Even though we all have to isolate and maintain social distancing, it doesn't mean that we are apart in spirit.