YWCA Hamilton Impact Archives

Carole Anne’s Place to reopen in December

Cathy hunkered down inside an alcove near the GO station on Hunter Street where she and her partner Lindsey would [...]

Many women are silent for years, hiding behind masks of happiness, masks of control, masks of “everything is okay,” while [...]

Milli Gould touched a well-manicured hand to her face and leaned in to listen to Annah Yassin’s story. It was [...]

On a crisp fall evening in late 2018, then-manager of Transitional Housing Violetta Nikolskaya stood before a room of women [...]

Josie Rudderham was heading back to work after the birth of her first child when she was told her job [...]

Nancy Oomen stands in the middle of her cheerily-decorated bedroom and holds up an Anne of Green Gables figurine. It’s [...]

For more than three decades, Kathy Hayes had a front row seat on the lives of students. As the Registrar [...]

Lucia Martinez stood in the lobby of the YWCA Hamilton, clutching the remains of her former life in her hands. [...]

As a girl growing up in Benghazi, Libya, Faiza Elbarghathi had one dream – to learn how to swim. Because [...]

Two years ago, Neanette Atanas rolled over in a Stretch Sweat and Unwind yoga class and her life went sideways. [...]