North End Family Centre launches Indiegogo campaign for its new home

A centre that serves struggling families in Winnipeg's North End launched an online fundraising campaign to finish renovations at its new building Tuesday.

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The North End Family Centre, which sees 1,400 Winnipeggers every month, has already raised $215,000 to purchase a bigger location at 1344 Main Street, half a block from its current home.

It now needs to raise the final $35,000 and has set up a page on Indiegogo, a crowd-sourcing website.

"Growing up in the North End, as an indigenous child in a single parent family that struggled to makes ends meet, life was not easy," said founder and executive directorKyle Mason in a news release.

"My family needed a place like the North End Family Centre growing up. It would have been very helpful but thankfully, the North End Family Centre is here today and having such an impact that we need to grow to serve even more families."

Mason said the new building will be almost 2,000 square feet bigger.He said it will allow staff to offer new programs and services, such as food-related programming.

He said the centre hopes to move into its new building in September.