As thousands of Maritimes self-isolate, it can be easy to live inside a bubble of protection and forget the others in our community who may be going without.
Organizations focused on helping people struggling with poverty and homelessness have been placed under exceptional circumstances during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Brunswick Street Mission and its volunteers started to worry. “When we started looking at this (Covid-19) at the beginning of March, it was reactionary to what was happening,” says Director, Fundraising and Communications, Carmen Boyko. “How are we going to step up?
As we saw volunteers leaving us, knowing that shelters really need volunteers, what was going to happen?” Like many charitable organizations, Brunswick Street