Toque Tuesday 2018

Toque Tuesday 2018 is fast approaching! Mark your calendars for February 6, 2018.

For over 10 years, Homeward Trust has partnered with Raising the Roof and has raised more than $100,000 for local youth and family homelessness initiatives. Raising the Roof is a national Canadian charity focused on long-term solutions to homelessness. The charity funds local grass-roots agencies working to alleviate and prevent homelessness in their communities.

Fundraising events are held throughout the campaign, culminating with Toque Tuesday. This one-day blitz sees hard-working volunteers selling specially branded Raising the Roof gear at various locations, including downtown LRT stations.

Jocelyn Falconer has been a Toque Tuesday volunteer for four years. “As a mother, the idea of youth homelessness breaks my heart,” Jocelyn shares. “Any way that I can assist an organization whose mission is to end youth homelessness, I am completely on board!” She says that the day is busy but well worth it: “The generosity of our community coming together is intoxicating!”

“Volunteering for Toque Tuesday fills my heart,” Jocelyn adds. “During the day, my job has me working with individuals who struggle just to make ends meet. Being able to volunteer allows me to give that little bit extra.”

Proceeds from this annual campaign support efforts to end youth homelessness in our community and across Canada. This year, funds raised in Edmonton will support the programs and services run by e4c, Edmonton John Howard Society, iHuman, and Youth Empowerment and Support Services to move youth from high-risk situations to positive futures.

Raising the Roof gear is also available at the Homeward Trust office (Monday – Friday), and both Find locations.

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We recognize we are gathered, in collaboration and with joint purpose, on Treaty 6 territory. This territory is the traditional home and gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples. The nêhiyaw (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Dene, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwe), Nakota Isga (Nakota Sioux), Inuit, and Métis, among many others cared for this land since time immemorial and continue to steward it today. As visitors in this territory, we honour the importance of the Treaty and our responsibility to these communities. Only in partnership can we create the changes necessary to end homelessness. It is vital we meaningfully engage and partner with Indigenous people and communities in this work while recognizing and addressing the conditions brought forth by colonialism. Displacement from traditional homelands, systemic racism, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, and the ongoing overrepresentation of Indigenous people in child welfare, correctional systems, and homelessness are responsibilities we all share.