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By Adam Donnelly

CAMPOUT TO END YOUTH HOMELESSNESS

A Way Home Kamloops looking for community support for Campout event

Nov 19, 2019 | 5:31 PM

KAMLOOPS — There’s less than a month until A Way Home Kamloops’s Campout to End Youth Homelessness.

The event challenges members of the community to spend a night living outside. That experience gives campers a brief glimpse into the challenges youth without housing face trying to survive without a home.

Campers are also expected to raise funds to help A Way Home’s Safe Suites program, which will combine social programs and housing for youth who don’t have anywhere else to go.

“Last year we were able to open up 24 units of housing,” A Way Home’s executive director Katherine McParland told CFJC Today. “However, the need is still strong. Last year we had 75 youth on our waiting list that we were unable to help because we didn’t have the resources.”

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McParland says they’re still looking for members of the community to take part in the campout, which is being held at McDonald Park on December 13 and 14.

“We really need the community to get behind the campout and stand in solidarity with youth who are experiencing homelessness,” McParland said. “We’re asking people to sign up. It’s on our website. We just ask you to spend one night in the shoes of a young person that’s exposed to all the elements and don’t have a safe place to be.”

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This year, I will be taking part in the Campout to End Youth Homelessness. If you want to donate to my fundraising page, please click here.