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Earn-a-Bike Program
Heart of the City Bicycles teaches individuals how to repair a bike culminating in receiving a bike and gaining skills to maintain this independent form of transportation.
Food Rescue and Distribution
In response to the issue of hunger in central Fort Wayne, Heart of the City has developed longstanding relationships with area restaurants that have designated our organization as a distributor for their unsold products. Six days a week, Heart of the City's Food Rescue Program secures overstocked and surplus food...
Food Bank
Heart of the City Food Bank was started in 1948 by Amos and Elizabeth Zehr as part of their pastoral ministry at Mission Church in partnership with the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission. Over the years, working out of their home with numerous volunteers, and self-funding the needed supplies, the Zehrs made regular distributions of food items to inner city families of Fort Wayne.
Laundry Room
The Laundry Room is an initiative to help families living in poverty have clean clothes and bedding along with teaching youth life skills such as the proper way to do laundry, how often they should be doing laundry and that other items within the home need to be washed regularly such as bedding. The typical individual or family utilizing The Laundry Room is often living in a low-income apartment/rental, a vehicle, or maybe even homeless.
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