Needle collection, hip-hop CD among projects getting Victoria grants: City of Victoria hands out $87,000 in 19 ‘special project’ contributions
Everything from needle-collection programs to youth recording a hip-hop CD received funding from the city of Victoria this year through special-project grants.
As usual, the city received far more applications for funds than it had money to grant. Twenty-nine applications were received totalling more than $240,000. The city’s corporate services committee ended up giving at least partial funding to 19 for a total allocation of just under $87,000.
AIDS Vancouver Island applied for $9,200 but got $4,500 for the third year of its community needle patrol to collect used syringes and distribute harm-reduction supplies. Working in partnership with Camosun College and Victoria police, rig diggers last year collected an average of 1,000 needles a month and gave out more than 1,500 harm-reduction kits.
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