Why do we suffer? How does God allow it? Where is God when we hurt? These are typical questions of theodicy: the attempt to account for God's goodness in the midst of evil.

When we first met in a downtown shelter, she was only sixteen and had been sent to Toronto from northern Canada for treatment at a health clinic. Soon she was on the streets of the city with drug and emotional problems and ended up in the shelter where we met.

Our mission at Development & Peace - Caritas Canada is to address the root causes of poverty, oppression and inequality by working with partners in the global south and mobilizing Canadians in the common struggle for justice & dignity.