Windsor's Welcome Centre Shelter for Women needs community support, as it hopes to raise $1.5-million before next summer.
Director of Community Engagement Remy Boulbol is kicking off the Pink Door Campaign today, which is looking to fund the purchase and renovation of a new 18,000 sq ft shelter by the summer of 2017.
"We'll be able to increase our single beds and we'll be able to add in several family units," she explains. "We're at about 6,500 sq ft now, so we're going to be more than doubling that and including program space that we don't currently have."
Boulbol says the family spaces will be something that no shelter in Windsor has been able to offer before, and will be extremely important, as it allows parents to have a sense of home and dignity while dealing with the difficult situations that they're in.
More than 175 children have visited the shelter in the last 12 months.
The welcome centre's been able to raise $260,000 to this point and its building committee has its eyes on a couple of sites within 5 km of Windsor's downtown for the new shelter, but no decision has been made yet.
For more on how you can get involved in this cause, visit pinkdoorcampiagn.ca.
