A Toronto organization that serves some of the city’s most vulnerable people is now in a highly vulnerable position of its own after its newly-renovated downtown space was significantly damaged by a fire.
Late last Friday night, a fire broke out in a laneway outside a three-storey brick building on the northeast side of the Church of the Holy Trinity campus, near Yonge and Dundas streets.The fire, however, spread to the adjacent structure, which was built in the mid-1800s, and travelled up a stairwell and the side of the building, damaging several offices, storage rooms, and meeting spaces and the structure overall.
For the next week or so, Maggie’s Toronto, which is run by and for sex workers, is taking a short break as its close-knit, nine-member team comes to terms with what happened, executive director Ellie Ade Kur told CP24.com. “We are working to assess the full extent of the damage and salvage as much as possible and we are committed to taking the necessary steps to re-open and rebuild a beautiful, functional, dedicated space for sex workers in our community to co-create and access low-barrier, judgment-free services and supports. To the best of our ability, we will be running off-site programming, but ask for your patience as we work through this difficult moment,” the organization wrote on its website.
“If had got there minutes later the whole building would have been gone. We could have lost ,” she said, adding for now the well-used building is “pretty much out of commission.”
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