Christmas Hamper Programs

I am truly amazed at how low some people will go. I have now heard from a few different individuals, that they collect anywhere from 4-7 Christmas Hampers from various agencies. We are talking either single people or a family on income assistance that each one collects this many.... I do not know about you but this is so totally out of control. We are hard working family who struggle to make it and don't qualify for a one because we work, yet if we were on income assistance we could potentially collect 7 or more Christmas Hampers because the agencies don't share their information. How wrong is that? I now have changed how I will be doing my donations as I can't be assured that the different agencies I donate too aren't giving one person all my donations. I think it is time these agencies work together and stop the abuse of the generous donations of the people of Penticton. Thanks

Kathy Giguere