Ark Aid launches ambitious funding drive [Video]

The Ark Aid Street Mission has a new mission.

Ark Aid is launching a fundraising campaign that is more than three times larger than any previous funding drive.

The goal is to get more people off the street.

The “365 Days of Rest” campaign comes as the number of people living unsheltered on streets or in parks continues to grow.

On Thursday the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) released a report stressing the urgency.

According to Ark Aid Executive Director Sarah Campbell, “It actually told us that 25 per cent more people have fallen into homelessness since 2022, which is right during the pandemic. And that we can expect that number to double in the next ten years.”

Campell told CTV News the City of London’s tracking tool indicates the number of unsheltered people in the city is approaching two thousand, “We know that the problem is getting bigger and the opportunities to fund, interventions are getting smaller.”

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