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Megaphone Breakfast Fundraiser 2023

Posted by · August 31, 2023 1:48 PM

Join Megaphone for it's annual Breakfast Fundraiser this Giving Tuesday, November 28th, 2023. Megaphone is looking forward to bringing together over 200 industry professionals, community leaders, and vendors for a morning of inspiration. Over breakfast, we will hear from a keynote speaker, a panel of peer leaders and celebrate the Vendor of the Year Award. Buy your tickets at the QR code above, or at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/704678952717?aff=oddtdtcreator

by Jessica Hannon

September 11, 2017

Connecting to my community

Director's Corner: Megaphone customers look out for their vendors, and vendors look out for them too

"Selling the paper is our livelihood" - Delisle Doucet, Victoria

“I first started out working as a street paper vendor around 1993—that was when the street paper in Victoria was called The Redzone. I heard about The Redzone through the community and I thought, well, I want to join in.

Finding Our Voices, Finding Home

In 2011, I published a collection of linked short stories called The Beggar’s Garden, a book set in contemporary Vancouver and loosely based on my experiences working for many years in a Downtown Eastside homeless shelter.