Bus Shelter: Ashley Frerichs

Ashley Frerichs: The 21-year-old Nanaimo resident spent a portion of her youth homeless on the West Shore, sleeping behind school portables, in church stairwells and killing time at the bus shelter. , according to Times Colonist. Now she studies child and youth care by distance at the University of Victoria and works in a youth employment centre. Ashley Frerichs felt goosebumps rise as she passed the old bus exchange outside the mall on her way into Langford this week and again as she walked the halls of Belmont Secondary School to see her band photos on the wall. This community did band together for me at one point, but it was hard, Frerichs told community members and homeless advocates at a Greater Victoria forum on youth homelessness in the school gymnasium on Wednesday night. She eventually found somewhere to stay and graduated. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.