Coats for Kids

Did you know that many children throughout the United States and Canada go without a coat each winter?

Many low-income families use their scarce resources to meet the most basic essentials and they need help to provide this vital winter necessity.

That’s why the Knights of Columbus in the District of Columbia started the Coats for Kids program, which now allows councils across North America the opportunity to purchase new winter coats for children at a discount and to distribute them to children in need in their local communities.

Through our Coats for Kids program, 1,780 local councils distributed 87,906 coats to children in need throughout the United States and Canada in 2016. Since the program began here in 2009, over 1,000,000 coats have been distributed.