Project Connect Drop-In Needs Goods, Volunteers

A popular service fair for people living homeless and in extreme poverty returns to Our Place drop-in for the third year in a row Oct. 13, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Coalition-sponsored Project Connect features one-stop shopping for a long list of much-needed services for some 700 people who we’ll see that day. They’ll come for services including help with housing, medical care, veterinary care, foot treatments, ID replacement, haircuts and more.

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Outpouring of Donations to Help Homeless People

August 24, 2010

NEWS RELEASE - For Immediate Release

VICTORIA, BC—In April of this year, two local philanthropists determined to help homeless people donated $50,000 through the Victoria Foundation with the notion of challenging the community to match their gift. The campaign, aptly named I’ll Match (http://www.victoriafoundation.bc.ca), raised an additional $78,742.75. The total $128,742.75 will go directly to the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness (the Coalition) (www.solvehomelessness.com) for its Streets to Homes pilot program.

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Loonie-a-Week Drive Now Up and Running!

August 20, 2010

If each person in Greater Victoria contributed a loonie a week for a year, we could end homelessness in 8 years. Incredibly, that equals $18,000,000 per year, and $143,500,000 by 2018.

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