YWCA Hamilton Impact Archives

YWCA Hamilton’s Encore program is a lifeline for breast cancer survivors

When Neanette Atanas talks about YWCA Hamilton’s Encore program, she gets a little emotional. “I may cry when I talk [...]

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 [...]