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Warm Fireside Project, 2008-2009
Host Organization: Projets Autochtones du Quebec www.paqc.org
End Poverty Now is proud to work with Projets Autochtones du Quebec (PAQ) on the Warm Fireside Project 2008. PAQ is a non-profit shelter in the Montreal area that caters to the urban Aboriginal community including Inuit, First Nations and Metis people.
The shelter provides a bed, shower, laundry facilities as well as food when available to between 15 and 20 homeless and impoverished each night. PAQ also holds counselling and rehabilitation sessions for the community.
In this venture, EPN is working to alleviate abject poverty through the funding of hot water for the shelter's kitchen, thus enabling a better experience for all that stay there. This will improve sanitation as well as the ability to prepare food. Likewise, EPN will donate food storage bins, allowing PAQ to buy food in bulk and store it in a location that is free of moisture and vermin.
End Poverty Now's McGill Chapter has also been very active with this local project initiating volunteer days, an EPN-PAQ dinner, and a clothing drive.
Another component of this project is the support of internship positions to further promote sustainability within the shelter. Two positions have been filled as outlined:
Both of these positions will improve the organization of the shelter as well as collect sustainable sponsorship and funds for the home to further improve its capacity.
This sustainable project will encourage immediate development while also enabling the shelter to take in more people over time. These areas of basic funding will improve the capacity of the home to not only aid those in need through providing a safe and comforting place to stay, but will also engage many more in their rehabilitation programs making for long-term poverty alleviation within Montreal.
EPN desires not only to eliminate poverty abroad, but also in our backyard, and this project enables us to do so.
Proposal to EPN's Board with BOA thoughts and recommendations
1st Activity Report
