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No Child Should Have to Take the Long Way Home is a grassroot initiative to help children in need of loving care, of a protective and stable environment to meet their basic needs in a safe house in their own community. Children, mothers and communities are the object of this project No Child Should Have to Take the Long Way Home.  After all, every child is born with the right to have a better chance at a life free from abuse and violence. 

July 6, 2015

Meeting with Mayor Jacques Demers of Ste Catherine de Hatley      
Favourable response : the municipality offers a room where I can do conferences and wall space for a photo exhibit.

July 10th, 2015

Invitation of the CIBC Bank in the person of Annie Lemay to give the name of my cause for an implication on their part.

July 20th, 2015

Dan Marchisella, Mayor of Elliot Lake, Ontario welcomes me at City Hall for a one-hour conversation about my project for the children of Northern Quebec.

Brian Bigger, Mayor de Sudbury, Ontario welcomes me at City Hall and presents his work team after a tour of his city with Tourism Sudbury. 

August 13, 2015

Al McDonald, Mayor of North Bay, Ontario greets me at City Hall for a picture of us.

August 14, 2015

Boyd McBride, president and CEO of SOS Children's Villages Canada offers me the opportunity of exchanging on the capacity to use SOS's child care model.

August 17, 2015

Jim Watson, Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario welcomes me at City Hall for a conversation about my project.

September 28, 2015

Robert Éthier, mayor of my birth town, welcomes me in his home so that we can talk about my project. He shares his knowledge of First Nations issues with me.

October 13, 2015  

Lucie Pouliot, director of the Centre des femmes de Memphremagog, welcomes me at the Center to discuss the possibility of a conference on the subject of violence to women in the North and in the South.

October 16, 2015 

Gaetan Gamache, mayor of Rivière-du-Loup welcomes me in his office to talk about my project.
He knows people who have experienced the Great North. He commits to make the connection between a walking group of Rivières-du-Loup and this trekker during my passage through his city.

October 20, 2015 

The MP Pierre Reid helps by giving me 250 envelopes and postage stamps. 

October 30, 2015 

I'm happy to meet the president, Caroline Hervé and an affiliate member, Annie Baron, of the Association of Inuit women, Saturviit, to submit my project. They are very encouraging and promise support. 

November 11, 2015 

The mayor of Granby Bonin receives me in his office. The meeting, under the sign of friendliness, allows me to understand the functioning of cities. He promises me an article in the Voix de l'Est during my walk through Granby

November 24, 2015

Photos with mayor Vicki May Hamm in Magog. Unconditional support and lots of encouragement.

November 25, 2015

My presence at Amnistie International assures a continuity of interest in my project No Child Should Have to Take the Long Way Home.

November 30, 2015

In the context of actions to address violence against women, I gave a lecture on the lives of women in Nunavik. 

December 8h, 2015

In the context of oppression experienced by vulnerable women, I met with Aura Freedom International. Their hands-on implication and solutions for women striving to get educated and free from oppression is a road to be explored fully.

January 4th, 2016

A telephone meeting to organize a needs assessment visit in one of the Nunavik village. Sponsored funds.

January 5th, 2016

Supper-conference on the subject of vulnerable children on Boulevard Primeau  in Châteauguay-also, on the obstacles women face to keep their children when separating due to violence. Animated discussion.

January 9th, 2016 

Conference on Rue Du Moulin in Magog-on the subject of abuse of women and children.

January 12th, 2016 

Conference on Rue des Immortelles in Sherbrooke-on the subject of the conditions of the lives of women in Nunavik.

New actions will be possible during the next three months to make this project come to its full realization. Should you know someone who cares to give a hand, give away my nominal details so they can reach me.

Jannuary 20th, 2016

While in Ogden for a few days, I give a talk to several users of the Standstead library describing the stages of my project.

January 27th, 2016

An interview on the community TV regarding my walk project.

February 2016

Time to recoup for planning the next big step-an evaluation of needs and existing resources.

March 2016

Early morning interview with Susan Campbell of CBC Quebec City AM.

Short radio interview with Régean Blais of Radio-Canada.

TV Interview on Radio-Canada with Jean Arel.

News report by Jean-François Gagnon in the Tribune of Sherbrooke.

April 2016

APTN presence.

Conference at Café Rico, 1215 Mont-Royal Avenue, Montreal, Qc.

Interview on CBC Montreal QC All in a weekend with Sonali Karnick.

Prince Rupert Library

The employees of the Prince Rupert library agree to the signature of my petition addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Fort Fraser and Vanderhoof, Prince George

Family reunions led to sharing my project and the signature of the petition addressed to Justin Trudeau.

Williams Lake

Meeting with Friendship Society and reporter Monica Lamb-Yorski.

Squamish

Walked over to the reserves and compared how Natives and Non-Natives live in a city where there are two distinct populations. 

Lilloett Friendship Center Society

On Earthday-I address 100 people celebrating earthday and 81 sign my petition. The next day I participate in an Anglican church service and 27 more sign the petition.

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