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Our love of nurturing nature in this simple way brings great joy. While most of us understand the need to nurture God’s creation, helping...

One chilly Sunday afternoon early in April our team crossed Dalhousie Street at Rideau. There in front of a popular cafe, amidst the...

Beth comes every Wednesday all the way from the outskirts of Ottawa to the downtown core, where she has been volunteering at the Office...

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Why do you volunteer at OIM? It’s a question that I have been asking our volunteers lately. The answers that have come back have had one...

I see it each Sunday night in the stylish clothes some people wear or the cars others don’t have. It’s visible in their health or...

Later that evening, my young street outreach partner and I met 52 street friends. They represented all facets of this diverse culture;...

John’s colourful dress reflected his mood and his outlook. I had once told him he reminded me of a peacock because he always had feathers...

But it is the mundane, the everyday events, that can have the biggest impact. My role at the drop-in is that of a greeter. Some say it is...

It happened as I got on the bus & looked around for an empty spot. “There she is!” I heard someone say. It was Ted. He was sitting alone....

Back to “Bob”: this is a man who has seen every province in our great country. This is a man who has been through many traumas, who will...

Valentines Day Week – just passed. Kudos to all of our volunteer outreach workers in all capacities: street outreach, drop in, office...

This is George Frederic Watts 1886 painting, “Hope.” Hope is sitting on a globe, blindfolded, clutching a wooden lyre with only one...

I was reminded of this the other day when a former client called us from Toronto to catch up.  She and her husband moved from Ottawa to...

OIM has been given a booth at the Ottawa Home and Garden Show, March 20 to 23 at the Ernst and Young Centre.  Why? A friend of the...

Following from last week, my friend ‘Jesse’, the ‘small things guy’. So last week at the drop in, I had to call the police and ask them...

I remember very clearly the day when Vern spoke up to support another guy who messed up.  The guy stole something from our office, and we...

Thinking about volunteering?  Just that in and of itself might be enough to change the course of your life! Volunteers are truly the...