The issue of homelessness will be front and centre at the Orillia Campus of Georgian college Thursday April 7 th.
That is when the Homeless Maze will be set up on campus.
The event is being organized by Georgian College’s Orillia campus, the Key Program and the Simcoe County Alliance to End Homelessness.
Carolyn Holmes, case manager with the Key Program, which is run out of Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital and says those taking part will find out what it is like being homeless and trying to find their way through a maze of services.
Holmes says participants will experience the frustration of not being able to find affordable rent, adequately feed themselves or their children and be forced to rely on others for survival.
She says the workshops will give people the chance to get a feel for what it might be like to be someone who is without support, with very little or no money, perhaps homeless, with other various issues going on.
The workshop will be held at two separate times: 8 a.m. and 12 p.m.
