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Terra


I met Terra in Toronto, Canada. An outreach nurse who had been helping her connected us. Terra is a wonderful, gorgeous 25 year-old woman who has lived on the streets for 5 months. Terra tells [...]

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Terra

Canada, face and voice of homelessness, road trip 2011

I met Terra in Toronto, Canada. An outreach nurse who had been helping her connected us. Terra is a wonderful, gorgeous 25 year-old woman who has lived on the streets for 5 months.

Terra tells a very real story about life on the streets. She doesn’t like shelters because she was beat up in one, so she sleeps on the streets or in parks.

I hope Terra’s story will stay in your heart and mind as it has with me. After this interview we took her to get some food. She is intelligent and funny, she just needs some extra love and compassion to change her life. The good news is the outreach nurse I was with is filled with that extra love and compassion, and will do everything she can to find Terra some help.

Please support all health and medical outreach services in your community.

 

Special thanks to Anne Marie Batten

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  • Clemens-richard

    lovesandrespectsxoxo Terra. You are not alone sweatheart! Hang in there, it will get better!! Committe to End Homelessness in Victoria (unceded Lekwungen Territories. Songhees Nation) Shame on Canada!

  • Guest

    She’s so much more intelligent, insightful and articulate than she’ll ever know.

    I also find the story of how she hurt her hand oddly endearing. “I didn’t think it was funny.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=739585345 Emma-Lee Chase

    This is so sad. She deserves to be in college, not this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/glenda.hyatt.7 Glenda Watson Hyatt

    So sad to hear about Terra’s tragic passing.

  • robert noonan

    rob native sober over twenty years,used to live on the streets of toronto. now living in ottawa ont working went back to school. now he is a counsellor. success is also a reality.

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