{"id":4489,"date":"2021-12-24T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluedoor.ca\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2023-08-03T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:03:15","slug":"blue-door-holiday-campaign-raises-funds-for-roughly-1500-people-experiencing-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluedoor.ca\/blue-door-holiday-campaign-raises-funds-for-roughly-1500-people-experiencing-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Door Holiday Campaign raises funds for roughly 1,500 people experiencing homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"
December 21st, 2021. By: BradfordToday Staff, bradfordtoday.ca. Original Article.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n
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Organization reaching out to the community to help support vulnerable individuals through financial donations.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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As the holiday season approaches, Blue Door, York Region\u2019s largest emergency housing provider is reaching out to the community to help support vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness, through financial donations.<\/p>\n

While people in the community are wishing for presents, family time, and new experiences, this season, many of your community members have one wish, a home – an apartment, house, or room to rent, four walls and roof to keep them safe during the winter and through the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The reality is a home should not be a wish, housing is a basic human right.<\/p>\n

Support is urgently needed to provide families and individuals with safe emergency housing, supports to help attain and retain affordable housing, and mental health supports like psychotherapy to learn to cope and heal from trauma.<\/p>\n

Donations, big or small, offer life-saving support to youth, men, women, and families experiencing homelessness by providing:<\/p>\n