Karen & Nancy

Two friendly faces that people on Pandora know well – Karen and Nancy from Peer2Peer Indigenous Society, which now has a refurbished ambulance to bring much-needed mobile wound care to the Block and other areas around town where people live homeless. Karen started Peer2Peer with her husband as a weekend thing for them to do in between full-time jobs, but it’s full-on now, staffed by people with lived experience. It’s the only Metis organization in the city working on the front lines of the social crisis. A new relocation program run by Peer2Peer to help people return home to their Nation, funded by the City of Victoria, has already gotten four people home. ” I was homeless for eight years, and I remember being stuck in Courtenay with no way to get home,” says Karen. “People want to go home.”

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