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By Jill Sperling

ANNUAL CAMPOUT

A Way Home Kamloops still short of fundraising goal for annual campout

Dec 11, 2019 | 4:39 PM

KAMLOOPS — A Way Home Kamloops is still short on its fundraising goal of $50,000 ahead of Friday’s Campout to End Youth Homelessness.

Around 50 people are signed up to camp outside in the cold Friday night.

The annual fundraiser brings in money for the Youth Housing First program.

With the event only days away, only $32,000 has been raised.

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A Way Home Kamloops is hoping for a surge of generosity in the next few days.

“They can go online to our website, www.awayhomekamloops.com,” said Executive Director Katherine McParland. “You can sign up to camp out. If sleeping in the cold’s not your thing, people can also click the donate now button and you’ll see a list of all the campers. We have about 50 people that have pledged to sleep outside that night and so you can choose who you want to support.”

A Way Home Kamloops says the funds from the campout are critical to its operations.

The funds from last year’s campout supported the opening of Safe Suites in Kamloops.

“The funds raised from the campout to help open Safe Suites means a lot to me and to A Way Home and to the youth that we work with,” said Youth Housing First Support Worker Deidre Sellars. “Without the support from the Kamloops community, we would not have been able to open Safe Suites.”