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Article content No, no, no, I’ll shovel snow, he said. A few hours later, Kostuk and volunteer Gil Clelland went outside the Y’s Centre Branch on Waterloo Street in downtown London to check on him, but couldn’t see him or the shovel. “A little while later, Brayden entered the building covered in snow and smiling. For the past three hours, he had shovelled the entire parking lot and all the sidewalks around the Y,” Clelland said. Pellett was always trying to come in out of the cold, always trying to find his place with people. “He was just trying to fit in everywhere he went,” hi...

Article content As London’s winter emergency shelters close, hundreds of homeless people — perhaps more than ever — are expected to move back along the river, streets and open spaces in the city. Already, some people who got help at the innovative winter shelters are homeless again, and losing the gains they made, say leaders in battling homelessness. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Winter gains against homelessness already rolling back, advocates say Back to video Outreach workers say they’re seeing more, new homeless people, and see...

  LONDON, ONT. -- Communities across Ontario, including London, have plans in the works to vaccinate those experiencing homelessness. Sarah Campbell from Ark Aid Street Mission on Dundas Street says for them the situation is urgent. “It's been proven in research that when people who are living homeless or deprived of housing contract COVID that it is more lethal for them than for other populations and that's often because they're dealing with other chronic health concerns in many cases.” She understands that administering the vaccine to the homeless population will be a challenge. ...

Author of the article: Randy Richmond Publishing date: Feb 09, 2021  •  February 9, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Andrew Lockie, left, of the YMCA of Southwestern Ontario, Sarah Campbell of Ark Aid Street Mission, Jacki Kostuk of the Y and Johnny Courey of Ark Aid are among those who have worked to set up emergency beds at the downtown London Y for homeless people when there is a extremely cold weather. (Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press) Article content Plunging temperatures and persistent homelessness have prompted the Ark Aid Street Mission and the YMCA to open up the Y’s ...

Author of the article: Megan Stacey Publishing date: Dec 22, 2020  •  December 22, 2020  •  3 minute read  •  Workers were busy Tuesday at the site of a new temporary homeless shelter being put together on Elizabeth Street in London. Four trailers have been subdivided into 30 rooms and three large trailers have been combined to make a common area. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press) Article content In what’s being lauded as a “Christmas miracle,” London’s first pop-up shelter is expected to open Wednesday evening to house 30 people who have been living outside and hav...