It’s because of donors like you that so far during 2024, we have been able to provide over 35,000 meals to people like Carol at Baptist Care SA’s WestCare Centre. 

“Your generous gift will have an immediate impact on the lives of people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness.” 

Carol visits us for breakfast each weekday morning when she welcomes anyone who stops to pat her Tenterfield Terrier, Walter, with a smile. 

She is in part-time work and on a part-pension, but her income doesn’t always meet her expenses, which have skyrocketed during the cost-of-living crisis. While she carefully watches every dollar, she still lives from pay to pay and without the support of Baptist Care SA’s WestCare Centre, would be forced to go without meals and essentials or put her housing at risk.  

Carol is one of the changing faces of people now visiting the WestCare Centre. Today, we see more people on pensions, including working families, who are seeking support to not fall into the poverty trap and therefore experience high risk of homelessness. For those in this cycle, it is very difficult to come out of it without coordinated, consistent and extensive support, like the kind the WestCare Centre provides.   

To continue to provide vital services to people like Carol and hundreds of others each year, we rely on the generosity of our donors. With your support, we can continue to help some of the most vulnerable people in our community and stop people on the edge falling into the poverty trap. 

Please donate today. 

Acknowledgement of Country

Baptist Care SA acknowledges we work on the lands of the Kaurna, Peramangk and Boandik people. We respect the ongoing skilful custodianship of lands, skies and waters and the continuous deep cultural connection with Country. We pay respect to Elders and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from all Countries, Nations and Mobs.