Homeless Awareness Day
Affordable Housing is the Key to Ending Homelessness Event @ Olympic Plaza
(firmenpresse) - CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwired) -- 10/10/13 --
Photo/Video Opportunities:
11:15 - 11:25 Launch of Planting Seeds of Change - Dr. John Rook, President & CEO, CHF
11:35 - 11:45 Mayor Naheed Nenshi Proclaims Homeless Awareness Week
12:00 - 12:30 Judging of the Beautiful and expressive artwork by people who have experience providing the hope and support needed to beat homelessness
11:30 - 1:00 Homelessness Sucks! Calgary's Youth who have experienced homelessness tell it like it is with individual messages attached to suckers (lollipops)
12:15 - 12:30 Speakers
Planting the Seeds of Change:
It began with a client vision - a vision to create something that would grow, provide and bring hope to their neighbours. It came through an understanding that sometimes awareness blooms through the simplest of gifts - the gift of planting and nurturing a life. That's the moment a group of formerly homeless men and women from The Alex Pathways to Housing program formed a group and decided to build special planter boxes that would grow and blossom change throughout Calgary.
With the planters completed the task of moving them into the community and sharing their beauty and message of hope became paramount - so the group went back to brainstorming and decided to share their creation with partner organizations as an expression of healing and a beacon of change.
Nine organizations were invited to decorate a planter using their creativity and vision to create a unique piece of art worthy of display throughout the city. Within hours all nine planters were spoken for and the wheels of creativity and collaboration began turning. The result is ...
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On-line auction begins at 2:00pm, October 10th, 2013 with Elevate Auctions - here is the link.
Contacts:
Calgary Homeless Foundation
Louise Gallagher
587 434 9794
Calgary Action Committee on Housing and Homelessness
Sean French
403 803 8187
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Datum: 10.10.2013 - 05:15 Uhr
Sprache: Deutsch
News-ID 304529
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"Homeless Awareness Day"
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Calgary Homeless Foundation and Face it Calgary and Calgary Action Committee on Housing and Homeless (Nachricht senden)
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