This week we're organizing a drop-off of holiday care packages for each of the 168 people currently living at Leclerc Institution (the provincial women's prison in Laval). Each package will include all or most of the following items (depending on availability): pencil crayons & colouring pages, nail polish, chocolate bar, handmade soap, blank holiday cards, hair scrunchie, playing cards, harm reduction resource pamphlet. After many months of very little visitation or programming due to the pandemic, we know it will mean A LOT to our incarcerated community members to receive some love from the outside. Not to mention some new reading material :)
If you'd like to donate, every $ helps! Please send an e-transfer to bi.harmredux@gmail.com with the password "carepackage". Any extra funds received will be directed towards our ongoing street outreach programming this winter. Thank you for reading & sharing.
Wishing you a relaxing and joyous end of 2020, whatever this time means to you.
xoxo, BIHRA
Each package was a little different, but here’s an example of what was inside!