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November 10, 2014

Our shared obligation to ensure everyone has a home

The 1Matters project "Tent City" celebrated its 25th anniversary last month.

Imagine for a moment that you have no home. 

What would you do for meals today? Where would you shower? Where would you sleep? If you have children, how would you provide for them? 

Published in Tony Magliano
May 9, 2012

Standing in solidarity with the homeless at Tent City

High school students from five Catholic school boards from the archdiocese of Toronto gather outside Martyrs’ Shine during Tent City, an event that helped to raise money and awareness of poverty and homelessness. The group was joined by Cardinal Thomas Collins, top left.

To help raise money and awareness for poverty and homelessness, about 265 Catholic high school students pitched tents outside Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, Ont., May 3 to show their solidarity with the less fortunate.

Hosted by ShareLife in co-operation with the archdiocese of Toronto’s Office of Catholic Youth, the inaugural Tent City event in Midland didn’t go as planned. A thunderstorm that blew through broke tents and sent students from the Toronto, Durham, Dufferin-Peel, Simcoe-Muskoka and La Conseil Scholaire de Centre-Sud Catholic school boards to an overnight sleep inside the Shrine.

Published in Youth Speak News