"No one ever says 'I want to grow up and be homeless'." Gita Schwartz, the executive director of Street Haven in Toronto, and I were discussing the shock that many women feel when they move into a shelter and the toll it can take on their sense of...
(0) Comments | Posted November 13, 2012 | 12:33 PM
Driving home from dinner last fall, my sister-in-law Jessica told me about her mother's holiday shoebox drive. For many years, Veronica has been asking her friends in Montreal to fill a shoebox with small gift items, which she collects and delivers to a women's shelter. Jessica wanted to do the...
(7) Comments | Posted December 1, 2012 | 12:04 AM