Inn from the Cold is Calgary, Alberta’s original and largest emergency family shelter. The Inn began out of a community concern for the growing number of people facing homelessness during the bitterly cold winter of 1996/97. Although they serve entire families, the Inn’s primary concern are their youngest residents, their goal to offer some stability and structure early in the lives of these children before they go back in to the community as adults. VistaVu Solutions has been a supporter of IFTC for over 15 years. Seeing the disparity between a growing, thriving city of Calgary and some of the people he encountered on those same city streets as he made his way to work, our President and CEO, Jory Lamb, decided years ago that it was his responsibility to give back. He has instilled that sense into all of VistaVu’s employees from our early days until now.
Plans are underway for us as VistaVu to show support and empathy for our fellow Calgarians in a more involved way. Together with our own families, we will be sponsoring a summer barbeque for the Inn’s residents. We’ll be serving them dinner, feasting with them (if you can call what WE cook, a feast!), and our own kids will have the opportunity to play with the children who call the Inn their home and hopefully develop some needed perspective and compassion. We are looking forward to this opportunity and later in the summer we’ll share some pics!
VistaVu is looking forward to this and other opportunities to serve. While performing charitable work can seem as though it is a completely selfless act, it isn’t 100%. Helping those less fortunate can be good for our mental and physical health. Helping improve someone else’s way of life is good for the soul! And who better to help than the youngest citizens of our great city. If we can play even a small role in inspiring them to bigger dreams, we will!
