Rick wore his boots all summer. They were the only footwear he had. I saw him once sitting on a bench furiously scratching his feet because the boots made them sweat and the sweat made him itch. I asked if he was ok and he answered, “I don’t have a contagious disease,...

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” is a phrase originally coined by Aristotle. If that’s true, then It’s the parts that make up this greater whole, and without those parts, that whole wouldn’t exist. As a matter of fact, the minute you change one of the...

Most of us are familiar with the jitters that come with going to a new place for the first time. That first day of a new job or visiting a foreign country; you don’t know what to expect. You don’t know the people and you don’t know your way around. You don’t know the...

I got there about 5 minutes early and a line of about 10 had already formed. As I waited, more people came; some getting off the bus and some arriving on foot. I had taken the bus as well and at one of the stops, two men got on who had obviously been of ‘no fixed...

Many people think of a compass as an outdated, palm held tool for when you’re lost in the woods. In the physical realm, that’s true. Our technology has advanced to more sophisticated tools for finding one’s way. GPS has replaced the old-fashioned compass and hardly...

Hope-To-Go is an exciting Compass program that provides lunches for souls in need of a meal on Tuesdays and Thursdays when The Compass Market is closed. Managed by long-time Compass volunteer, Cathy Hetherman, Hope-To-Go provided 8,000 meals to our south Mississauga...

We homo sapiens have been walking the earth for approximately 1.8million years. We walked to hunt, travel, play, to keep safe, and we thrived. Today we travel by car, train, bus, and bikes, but there is nothing as beneficial as walking. Five Benefits of Walking: 1....

We all know The Compass Food Bank & Outreach Centre is a place that helps people.Thinking of that likely makes you think of all the clients that are helped every single month. As the Volunteer Manager at The Compass, I’d like to give you another perspective. For...

 For most of us in Mississauga-Lakeshore, experiencing homelessness is an unimaginable situation. Each day, we are able to meet our daily needs of health, security, food, housing and camaraderie, unimpeded. Yet, many people within our region wake in a world in which...