Covenant House Vancouver

My day started meeting up with one of the youth who was previously staying here and he was at the front reception with a friend of his and he said that he wanted his friend to come by and see the place and the people that had changed his life.

So we went on talking and I explained that we provide the bare necessities like food, shelter, clothing, counselling but it's up to you to make the choices that you make and the road that you want to walk. And he said, that's true, that's true. But he said he couldn't have done it without Covenant House and the staff that's here, which was, which really is nice to hear.

He also said he had an epiphany because the night prior he was walking and saw a homeless person outside of a 7-11 down by where he lived and he said he got to talking with the homeless person and found out that the guy was 26 years old and trying to stay clean and was waiting to get a detox bed and that he was really hungry. And what this youth did, that we know, went and went back to his house and grabbed all of the canned goods that he had in his cupboards and all of the food that he could, basically, and went back down to the 7-11 and gave this homeless person, or this homeless male his food.

And at that time, and now he's saying, "I've had such a great feeling from doing that! It was the best feeling ever and now I understand why you guys do this kind of work. It's, it made me feel great," he said. And so he, this is a youth that I would say has a huge heart and has come over great obstacles and really, really is turning into an amazing human being.

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