Knock poverty out of the park with Anawim House’s sock toss event at Harbour Cats. They will be playing Yakima Valley Pippins at their home ground of Royal Athletic Park on July 11th. Bring new socks or buy socks at the game and when you see a home run, join the avalanche of people throwing…
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February 2016 was a big month for Anawim House. This month saw an increase in the number of exciting programs and initiatives available to our residents and guests, as well as some big news! Some of our new initiatives are: Shifting Gears Shifting Gears is a new program brought to us Leadership Victoria. This program…
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Rough Tides for those Living on the Water Last week we said homelessness comes in many forms. It also occurs in unexpected places. We are familiar with people avoiding homelessness by turning to emergency shelters, or even sleeping in a tent in the park and other public spaces. It often goes unrecognized that some people…
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Canada and especially Victoria are celebrated as a diverse and multi-ethnic community. Despite this, we often hold stereotypical perceptions about who experiences homelessness in Victoria. The streets of downtown Victoria create a very visual perspective of what homelessness looks like, and who is homeless. However, homelessness affects more people than we can imagine. By now…
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Why do we Volunteer? For most people, life feels like it just keeps getting busier and busier. Yet some people choose to take time out of their busy schedules to volunteer. A 2012 study by Statistics Canada identified that approximately 50% of Canadians donate their time, accumulating more than 10 billion hours of volunteer time…
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For those who live in busy cities, it is easy to become numb to the homelessness problem around us. We see homeless people on the streets, asking for change or collecting bottles. We accept that a certain amount of homelessness is inevitable. But homelessness is not a given. We can not only reduce homelessness, we…
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