15 Nov Outrage to Action: support Ottawa’s women’s shelters
The Cornerstone Women’s Shelter blaze and last night’s fire at a women’s rooming house are bringing to light the urgent needs of women’s advocacy and support groups in Ottawa.
Updated: And, a lot of people are expressing - including me - disappointment in the reactions some of the people who were near the fire had; see the second article linked above. See this Twitter search here and here for more reaction.
These two recent fires in women’s housing in Centretown will be putting major pressure on the emergency shelter system in Ottawa.
Here is a list of organizations I cobbled together this morning of organizations in Ottawa who support women in crisis situations where accommodation, clothing or food is required. Please add other organizations in the comment section.
Cornerstone Women’s Shelter donations can be made online here; or contact Anglican Diocese of Ottawa at 71 Bronson Ave. 613-232-7124 to arrange cash donations.
Minwaashin Lodge, Aboriginal Women’s Support, also supporting Oshki Kizis Lodge. An emergency shelter for women.
Centre 507: food bank; 613-232-3059.
St. Joe's Women's Centre, 613-231-6722
The Well, 154 Somerset W. at Elgin (clothing donations); 613-594-2843
Ottawa Community Immigrant Services, donate online here.
Immigrant Women’s Services of Ottawa
And, donations can always be made to the Ottawa United Way.
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UPDATED: Ottawa, it’s time to help out women in need (November 16th, 2009 at 9:55am)
[...] as my fellow flack and blogger Ian Capstick points out, this is not only a tragedy for each and every women who was living in one of the properties; [...]
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Helping make a bad week better « knitnut.net (November 16th, 2009 at 5:45pm)
[...] kinds for women’s shelters. If you’d like to help, please visit Bob’s blog or Ian Capstick’s blog for more information. Laura Payton tweets that you can also drop off donations to the Hill Times at [...]
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Updates? We got your updates » Case Study Jam (November 16th, 2009 at 8:24pm)
[...] you can’t make it, local blogger and all around good guy Ian Capstick has put together a list of charities and community groups that could really use a helping hand right now – please [...]
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A community call for help… « bimble (November 17th, 2009 at 9:15pm)
[...] A community call for help… It is with a heavy heart that I am writing today. In the last week two womens’ shelters in Ottawa were burned down. One women died in the first fire. The second one was caused by a Molotov cocktail thrown at the house – how someone can do such a thing I cannot comprehend. Now forty women are homeless and missing the few possessions they had with them. A tragic turn to an already tough situation to be in. I’m galvanized by the actions initiated by two members of the Ottawa blogging/PR/social media community – the fabulous Bob LeDrew and Ian Capstick. [...]
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Pickup route for Ottawa women in need. (November 20th, 2009 at 2:23pm)
[...] who organized the Parliament Hill / Press Gallery canvas and has a crapload of stuff for me, to Ian Capstick, who started the ball rolling, to Lori Mellor at the Preston Street [...]
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Merry Christmas, and one more time for Cornerstone. (December 23rd, 2009 at 9:43am)
[...] 15: Ian Capstick’s Mediastyle blog posts a list of resources to help people affected by both of these [...]
There is also The Well / La Source, which operates out of St. John’s church on Elgin, at Somerset. http://bit.ly/29DnIe
The Centretown Community Health Centre may have some programs underway… I know that Somerset West CHC works with rooming houses and has done emergency fire fundraising, but these fires are in the CCHC’s catchment area
I’m willing to take two hours on Friday afternoon and drive around picking up donations to be delivered to an appropriate place. I’ve got a Honda Fit that will hold a LOT of stuff. If people tell me where to be I’ll grab stuff (clothes etc) and bring it to the people who need it.
Great list. I’m sharing like crazy!
Thanks for posting this. I’m gonna add Efry Ottawa to the list. Also in Centretown and also under-funded, Efry offers the only residential transition house for Ottawa women coming out of provincial or federal prisons..
http://www.efryottawa.com/
Thanks for this. I’ll add efry ottawa to the list as the only residential transition house for Ottawa women coming out of provincial or federal prisons. Also in Centretown, also under-funded..
http://www.efryottawa.com/
If you need any volunteers to cook the christmas dinner or help out in anyways. Please contact me at my email address. Im presently taking a community service worker course and would love to help out anyway i can.