Kira Cheeseborough, a peer navigator with the society, told KTW the funds will be used for the Youth Housing First Program and for the Safe Suites supportive housing initiative.
Kamloops Home Depot raised a total of $8,524 in store and online for A Way Home Kamloops, while The Home Depot Canada Foundation contributed an additional $2,000 grant, bringing the total to $10,524.
Home Depot Canada Foundation’s Orange Door Project raised more than $1.1 million in support of critical housing and support programs for at-risk and homeless youth across Canada, with more than $190,000 being distributed to local charities in B.C. The company’s annual campaign from from Dec. 1 to Dec. 20 last year in support of 125 local charities that are committed to preventing and ending youth homelessness.