Last year, a woman named Debra contacted me about helping out with the art group. Debra is a busy mother of 2 with a gift of cooking and...

I discovered this very early on in my work at OIM.  Then – as now – it was not uncommon for one of our street friends to end a...

Meet Nicky: homeless,  alcoholic, mentally ill. Nicky joined the art group last year. She told me that most of her childhood had been...

Getting up for 5:30 am isn’t very enjoyable to me but then I get thinking about our street friends in Ottawa. They have already started...

We didn’t get her name:  it wasn’t offered and it was too early to ask.  Maybe she was seventeen, but the hard life on the streets made...