Jun 19th, 2024

Media Release: Volunteer Collaboration with Home Depot Enhances Lives of Over 1,000 Ottawa Community Housing Tenants

June 19, 2024 – OTTAWA, ON – Approximately 70 volunteers from Home Depot stores across Ottawa joined forces to build benches, a pergola, a deck, flower boxes and picnic tables. These additions will create inviting outdoor spaces for OCH residents to gather and connect.

This marks the third community improvement project Home Depot has completed in partnership with OCH. These initiatives lay the foundation for stronger, more inclusive communities. Home Depot is generously donating the materials needed for the project.

OCH’s Volunteer Engagement Program was established in 2011. It matches corporate partners with projects that are driven by tenants and beautify communities.

Quick facts:

Other Home Depot projects:

• September 2012: built and assembled portable at Morrison Gardens – which now operates as the Morrison Community House.
• September 2013: rejuvenated youth centre at 201 Friel.

Community Information

• 1163 residents
• 344 Children and youth
• 216 children in single parent households

Quotes

“Volunteer projects transform our communities and are the essence of collaboration. We are so proud that Home Depot decided to work with us a decade ago and is committed to growing this partnership. The team really knows how “doers get more done,” and we know how givers get more done!”

Stéphane Giguère, Chief Executive Officer, OCH

About OCH:

Ottawa Community Housing offers approximately 15,000 homes to about 33,000 tenants, including seniors, families, individuals, and people with disabilities. These homes are located in various communities throughout the City of Ottawa and house a diverse population with different languages, cultures, and ethnicities. OCH is Ottawa’s primary community housing provider, managing two-thirds of the city’s housing portfolio and ranking as the second largest in Ontario. In 2024, OCH earned recognition for the seventh consecutive year as one of the National Capital Region’s Top Employers.

About Home Depot

The Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement retailer, with approximately 475,000 orange-blooded associates and more than 2,300 stores in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The typical store today averages 105,000 square feet of indoor retail space, interconnected with an e-commerce business that offers more than one million products for the DIY customer, professional contractors, and the industry’s largest installation business for the Do-It-For-Me customer.

For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:

Jennifer McIntosh
Communications and Marketing Specialist
613-914-9953
jennifer.mcintosh@och.ca