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What can I do?

  • Learn about the causes of homelessness.
  • Support local projects that provide homes for people who need them.
  • Write a letter to the elected officials that represent your area. Personal letters that describe how homelessness affects you and your community are generally more effective than form letters. Letters to provincial MLAs and federal MPs can be sent free of charge.

• Click here to locate your Member of Parliament (MP) :
• Click here to locate your Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA)

  • Be respectful and courteous to homeless people.
  • Volunteer your time and skills – contact local organizations and ask how you can help.
  • Donate funds to local organizations that are making a difference.
  • Donate items to Gather and Give, an organization that works with more than 50 front-line agencies to collect and distribute blankets, sleeping bags, pillows, sheets, kitchenware, towels, men’s and women’s socks, underwear, winter jackets and gloves, toques and scarves.
  • Talk to your family, friends and colleagues about the causes and solutions for homelessness.

Printable Fact Sheet: What can you do to help solve homelessness?

  • RSS Read what people are saying and add your voice

    • By: Johnny Delorme
      I have been homeless during my short lifetime, even though I am not yet a legal adult. This is a sad state of affairs, and more needs to be done to ensure that youth have more opportunities to access better services, especially in regards to housing, to help them stay off the streets, or to be able to function well when they are. It is not a joke to be homeless, it is not easy and it is not fun either. People sometimes say that those who are homeless are getting a free ride with welfare and services etc, but who are you to judge us, when you do not live the daily lives that those of us on the street do? Before you criticize or pass judgment, stand in our shoes. Would you really like being forced to sleep outside in bad weather with no protection or shelter? Didn't think so.
    • By: Sherry Moore
      I believe everyone has a right to housing and feel it is the goverments job to provide housing to those who cannot afford it.
    • By: Nathanaël Lisimaque
      They are people like you and me. What would you expect if for whatever reason you would be sleeping under a bridge? PS : Smile, it is a great thing to do to anybody. :-)
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