Support your Unhoused Neighbours this Winter

This post is intended as a companion piece to the article in the latest issue (December, January, February) of the Fairfield Gonzales Community Association The Observer newspaper (available online and on paper at the FGCA Centre at 1330 Fairfield Road) – simply click on the topic that you are interested in from the list below and you’ll be taken directly to details on that topic as well as links to more information.

Our campaign this winter is raising funds and/or donations of items for the following four organizations:

1. QomQem Coastal Connections – you can donate directly to QomQem and get a charitable tax receipt
2. Peer2Peer Indigenous Society – Peer2Peer does not have charitable status so if you’d like a tax receipt you can go to the FGCA Canada Helps page, select #3 in the drop down list and we’ll turn your donations into whatever Peer2Peer tells us is most needed for their street outreach
3. SOLID Outreach – SOLID does not have charitable status so if you’d like a tax receipt you can go to the FGCA Canada Helps page, select #3 in the drop down list and we’ll turn your donations into whatever SOLID tells us is most needed for their street outreach
4. The Backpack Project – the Backpack Project does not have charitable status so if you’d like a tax receipt you can go to the FGCA Canada Helps page, select #3 in the drop down list and we’ll turn your donations into whatever the Backpack Project tells us is most needed for their street outreach.
   
   If you’re interested in taking donations directly to The Backpack Project you can leave items at any one of the following bin locations and here’s a list of what is accepted and what is not Donation bins are available until December 20th (if you are reading this after this date please consider making a monetary contribution via NSUN and we will talk to Niki from the Backpack Project to see what is needed – January and February are still cold and miserable for those living unsheltered).

Here are links to the learning resources mentioned in The Observer article:

1. Report from the Housing Justice Project evaluating housing in the Capital Regional District “using International Human Rights Standards and the right to housing set out in Canada’s National Housing Strategy Act 2019.”
2. A link to the University of Victoria’s free online course “Fundamentals for the Homelessness Serving Sector”

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