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CDN-NDG hires homeless, unemployed people to distribute borough flyers

The borough of Cte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grce has partnered up with community group L'Itinraire to provide jobs to the homeless or unemployed.

Borough teams up with LItinraire to fight poverty and social exclusion

L'Itinraire on hiring homeless, unemployed to distribute borough flyers

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The borough of Cte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-De-Grce has partnered up with community group L'Itinraire to provide jobs to the homeless or unemployed.

The borough of Cte-des-NeigesNotre-Dame-de-Grce has partnered up with community group L'Itinraire to provide jobs to the homeless orunemployed.

The new employees will godoor-to-door to give out information flyers to residents about everything fromboil-water advisoriesto new compost pick up dates.

"When people come toL'Itinraire, they're looking for a way to get their life back, to do something, to work, to find themselves in society," saidCharles-ric Lavery, the head of social development.

"We want to offer more possibilities and the distribution for the borough was a way to offer something else."

Ray Adam first walked through the doors atL'Itinerairein March,homeless and hopingthe community group could help him find a job.He was hired for the flyer distribution project.

He says he's faced a lot of stigma, having lived on the street.

"When you don't have a permanent address, a lot of businesses don't want to hire [you]because they think you are lazy, you don't want to work, you're an alcoholic or a drug addict," he said.

This partnership is the second forL'Itinraire.It received a contract for a similar project fromthe City of Montreal in April.