Christmas Hope charity collaboration in Lethbridge seeing significant increase in demand

The organizations behind Christmas Hope are seeing demand like never before. They’re expecting to serve more than 8,000 Lethbridge residents this holiday season, more than 5,000 of which are children. Last year, they served roughly 5,800 total. While it’s a significant increase, it wasn’t unexpected. “We came into the season knowing registrations were up. We saw a definite increase here (and) we've seen an increase in services in other areas in the community we're a part