An Okanagan non-profit outreach organization is holding a silent auction fundraiser with the hope of raising enough funds to be able to reopen. 

All Are Family Outreach Society (AAFO) is currently closed due to high demand and a lack of donations. When up and running, the small team of volunteers helps individuals in need from Armstrong to Kelowna, providing food, money for medications, emotional support, or anything else they can help with. 

"Once again, we have seen our intake increase many, many times over with both food and financial donations dropping," said AAFO founder Clary Lausnes. "We even have seniors and families coming to us from all the way from Malakwa and Lumby now."

To help raise funds to reopen the outreach, AAFO is holding an online silent auction from 1 p.m. April 1 to 4 p.m. April 14. Anyone with items, services, gift cards or anything else they would like to donate to the auction is encouraged to get in touch. To make an item donation, reach out to AAFO on . 

The online silent auction event will also be posted on , with a link to the auction to be added to the AAFO Facebook page at a later date. 

While the outreach doesn't have the overhead of bigger organizations, it still needs to pay for its sea can rental to store items, fuel, upkeep and insurance on its van, and food for the outreach. 

"Requests for help with fuel and lifesaving medications have gone through the roof," Lausnes said. 

Others are doing all they can to support AAFO.

Kelowna's Laura Lacour collects items people no longer want and redistributes them to people who can use them. Some of the items go directly to AAFO, and others are sold with the proceeds going to the outreach.