A Way Home Kamloops less than halfway to fundraising goal for annual campout
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KAMLOOPS — It’s one week until A Way Home Kamloops’s annual Camp Out to End Youth Homelessness — and the organization is asking the public to help reach its fundraising goal.
“Unfortunately, we are not even at 50 (per cent) of our fundraising goal of $50,000,” Executive Director Katherine McParland says. “If we do not achieve our goal, this will limit the number of youth in our community that we are able to provide housing and supports to. For example, it could be the difference between (three) youth or 10 youth receiving housing.”
McParland says during last year’s Youth Homelessness Count, 136 youth identified as experiencing homelessness. Additionally, there were 75 youth on A Way Home Kamloops’s Wrapforce Housing waiting list that the organization didn’t have enough resources to provide housing for.
“The Camp Out is a critical fundraiser to our collective efforts to end youth homelessness. Without being able to achieve our fundraising goal, we will be limited in our ability to provide supportive housing for all the young people in our community who are in need of it,” McParland says. “We call on our community to stand rooted in action and help us achieve the goal to ensure young people in our community have a way home!”
