Gabriel’s Cafe had offered soup in exchange for tokens that donors would purchase for $4.50 and hand out to those in need, but ended the program out of concern for staff safety.
Worries about staff safety have prompted a downtown Nanaimo café to end a program where it offered soup in exchange for tokens that donors would purchase for $4.50 and hand out to those in need.
But the cafe will now be donating to the Wisteria Community Association, which distributes food and hot beverages to people without homes and others in need in Nanaimo nightly.The Martins said they have great compassion for unhoused and impoverished residents who “work to survive every day” and understand their need for increased supports.
He said he arrived at the café last month shortly after the customer with the knives, who was outside by then. Jeffery said he heard that the man was apologetic.
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