Lack of hygienic facilities, group of injection-drug users pose potential risk, says B.C.’s chief medical health officer

Streets to Homes -- a pilot project by the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness -- has received a funding boost of almost $130,000, courtesy of anonymous donors and the public.

Armed with cookies, residents try to build bridges in a Pandora neighbourhood tarnished by drugs.

The Mentoring Project is a joint effort of the Victoria Cool Aid Society and the Umbrella Society, and is fully funded by the United Way. Mentors and participants come from all walks of life, although most have in common an experience with mental illness or addiction either in their own lives or that of their families.

Saanich-based dentist is opening up his clinic to those in need.

For one day he and his volunteers will perform fillings, extractions, and X-rays for about 100 people without dental insurance.

Huge building modules from the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Village in Whistler will be hoisted into place tomorrow afternoon to form a Saanich apartment complex for the homeless.

TIMES COLONIST - July 28, 2010

Team approach offers variety of programs for city's marginalized.