“We’re people too. We walk, we talk, we’re just normal people, but we’re just in a bad situation and it’s hard to find a place.'
And no matter how gut-wrenching it was to see his makeshift home and possessions go up in flame, Kurt Kriberg knows when he comes to the Vincent de Paul Drop-In Centre, a friendly face will be there to offer him a meal.
Kriberg has been getting fed at the drop-in centre for six or seven years, not long after he left his rural home near Grande Prairie, Alta. He didn’t think when he arrived in Prince George he’d be living in tents or shelters, relying on social assistance cheques and getting his meals from charities, but that’s his reality.
Kriberg has found a break from winter, sleeping at the Native Friendship Centre’s Second Avenue temporary shelter, half a block away from St. Vincent’s.
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