Just a quick note to say I found your article in the March 2, 2006 Province of real interest. having had mental illness dump me onto the streets of Abbotsford fortunately my personal resources lasted until I had started back up the path to mental health) I have come to have more experience than I want with life on the streets. With a business background myself, I agree that business has an important role to play in this issue, beyond simply signing cheques.

The information about Canadian Business for Social Responsibility has me planning to research and contact this group after I send this missive off to you. I hope you do not mind but I have/will use quotes from your article for letters to the editor of our local paper and for an article I will write and post to the homeless web-site.

If we as a society are to make any progress in addressing this growing social issue we need more programs such as ‘Seeing is Believing” – and more articles in the press so that the public can at least5 get an idea of the size scope and complexity of the situation covered by the simple label ‘homeless’.