Collecting money has been around for centuries. From collecting money for showing where a ball is under a cup or shells. Or kids going door to door selling $2.00 Hersheys chocolate bars (I aged myself there, sorry!). Only in recent years, housing and homelessness crisis, as well as how simple it can be to scam… Continue reading Protect Yourself: When Collecting Money for Causes becomes Cloudy.
It's no secret that encampments are rough for multiple people including but not limited the people living in them. And while people toot about housing first some issues are far more complex than that. We are speaking with a volunteer, Pam Taylor, who helped one of the encampments within Halifax Regional Municipality. And while I… Continue reading Volunteering in an HRM Encampment, The uphill battle for providing stability to the homeless.
Stacey J. Girard 