Your voice counts!Get your housing thoughts in:
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Your #Unsheltered support is needed!
The button below is where you can check in on what items are currently needed in Unsheltered Aid. Thank you to all for their support! City of Kitchener Council Meetings
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"Community works together to protect homeless population from COVID-19 and to plan for winter"
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For now find more of the recent "tucked away" content here:
Region to open 3 sites for short-term accomodations to people who are homeless this winter - CBC News Land Back Camp moves, calls on Waterloo to do more anti-rasicm work - Kitchener Today Outreach better investment than security guards in Cambridge, agencies say -The Record Kitchener councillors approve anti-racism plan - The Record (Related Staff Report to Council) |
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Had the pleasure of joining @MyAudioFace on 98.5 CKWR FM recently in discussion on poverty and our local unsheltered housing crisis. If you missed it online take a moment and tune in below!
(We STILL need water and port-a-potties for our unsheltered!) |
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“It kind of sucks, right, with everything that’s going on, now they’re trying to kick us out of here,” says Terry Kaan, who is living in the camp. (Source)
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You can connect further
with CKMS host Yenny Eckstrom online: Facebook: Blue Sky Horse Radio or YouTube: Blue Sky Radio Yenny |
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We need a fighting chance for our unsheltered residents!
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Listen in to this interview hosted by
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"The Struggle Is Real"
"Bank Garnishes Government Assistance
To Local Anti-Poverty Advocate"
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"Along with Regan Sunshine Brussé, we speak with Laura Mae Lindo, the Kitchener Centre representative in provincial parliament and Lea Caragata, a professor of social policy at Wilfrid Laurier University." -SOURCE by Host: Ivan Angelovski
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Website:
Civic Hub-On-Line: Unsheltered Campaign Twitter: @UnshelteredC Facebook: Unsheltered Campaign Instagram: @unsheltered.campaign |
Listen in to this interview hosted by
CKMS Radio! Interview begins at 11:59 - Great tunes on both sides of it!
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Great music and conversations!
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Grassroots Petition Available For Local Individual Citizen Signature
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Social Development Center of Waterloo Region to be listed.
An Immediate Request On Homeless NeedsApril 10th, 2020
1) Immediate cold weather supplies and equipment offered to ALL local residents in need of such, to de distributed to local agencies to pass out accordingly. Cost applied to whomever it suits. At this point in the year this does not need to be expensive.
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As we come together globally, locally, and communally, recognizing our need to protect our most vulnerable, those at most risk of dying in this current crisis, I cannot envision a more eloquent metaphorical image of "we are in it together"!
Let us begin to design and create this interwoven portrait of unity. /
There remain basic survival measures that are lacking for these people. It is still cold outside. They are freezing.
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