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“Seniors are already vulnerable. It’s quite easy for them to lose their homes, and especially with the rate of high rents,” McKenzie said. Over the weekend, Victoria police officers helped dig out a man in his 80s who was living in a tent in someone’s yard, after heavy snowfall collapsed the tent, trapping the man inside. He was unharmed, and told police he was happy with his living arrangement and had an agreement with the homeowner to live there for the past year. While some people want to live outside, Rev. Al Tysick, who works closely with the street community as the executive director of the Dandelion Society, said the vast majority of those he encounters want to have a roof over their heads.
For campers at Royal Athletic Park, Hey Neighbour pilot project can’t come soon enough
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For the more than 30 campers living in Royal Athletic Park’s parking lot, the Hey Neighbour pilot project has brought a ray of hope after several months of trauma and abuse.
“I think it’s a wonderful proposal,” Tina Dawson, the director and a resident of the encampment at Royal Athletic Park, told the Martlet.
The project, a collaboration between Aryze Developments and the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, aims to move members of the camp into 30 modified shipping containers by the end of March. Aryze Developments hopes to begin construction early this month.
How One Rural Community Creatively Solved Keeping Its Residents Well Fed During a Pandemic
By April M. Short
Hunger and food insecurity have increased worldwide since COVID-19 took hold. In December 2020, the United Nations warned of the threat of “
catastrophic global famine,” urging worldwide governments to prioritize food security and humanitarian needs in their COVID-19 response plans. The global, industrialized food supply chain is strained and fraying. Production and shipping delays are increasingly commonplace. Given the lack of substantial response by many governments to food insecurity, it has often fallen to individuals to step in and feed their communities. Neighborhood-based volunteer groups across major U.S. cities and beyond have come up with strategies to support themselves from within, working to curb hunger with creative initiatives like community free-food fridges, volunteer grocery deliveries and other mutual aid efforts.
Victoria city officials and social services agencies scrambled Friday to open more shelter beds and warming tents in advance of an expected snowstorm.Environment Canada issued a winter storm warning . . .