The 10 young people staying at Safe Harbour, which provides emergency and transitional housing to homeless and at-risk youth, are launching a fundraising campaign and working to drum up support following word that the shelter would be closing in a couple of weeks time due to a lack of funding.
That’s according to Dalton Ingalls who is staying at the shelter and spoke with us. He says he’s scared but not going to let it bring him down. He says he believes in them and believes they can pull through it and bring the funds back to normal. He says the staff there are like family to him.
“We don’t wanna lose it, it’s our home, you know what I mean?” he says.
Jensen Robichaud is also staying at Safe Harbour and tells us that he loves it there, saying, “you meet a lot of friends there, you meet people who have been down the same road who understand what you’re going through.”
We asked Robichaud what the closure of Safe Harbour means for him, he says, “it means another time on the streets.”
They have launched a Facebook page called Save Safe Harbour.
