HeroWork
Radical Renovation The ripple effect of giving
I
n past years, a Radical Renovation
modate COVID-19 safety restrictions,
their clients. HeroWork gathers resources
performed by HeroWork would
but the outcome was the same — a beau-
from the construction community in the
typically take place over a series of
tifully updated facility that will enable a
form of time, expertise, funding, and in-
weekends on a work site buzzing
greater community outreach.
kind supplies to deliver two Radical Ren-
with local contractors donating time and
HeroWork, founded in 2011 by Paul
resources for the good of a charity. In
Latour, is a charity that transforms other
2020, the goodness in kind was stretched
charities through comprehensive renova-
over a longer period of time to accom-
tions that enables a charity to better serve
ovations projects each year. The most recent renovation, completed in November, was of the Y’s Young Moms Program located in the Kiwanis Victoria Family Centre. The program offers safe, stable, and affordable housing for young mothers (aged 16-29) and their children under the age of five years. “It was a sad older building with a lot
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of good happening inside the doors,” says Marlena Salvador, philanthropy & communications manager, HeroWork. “What the Young Moms and Kiwanis Victoria does is amazing, but the building definitely needed an upgrade, so we're really very excited to have been able to do that.”
