Re: craft program
Liberty (liberty@vaxxine.com)
Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:17:23 -0500
Bonnie,
At 12:48 PM 26/11/97 PST, Bonnie Briggs wrote:
> The members of my drop-in, The Meeting Place do that. We have a store
>on the front of the drop-in Where hand-made items are sold. There is a
>stained glass workshop in the basement of the The Meeting Place where
>window hangings and other stained glass items are produced. They are
>then sold in the store.
> There is also, in Toronto, a store called "Prezents Of Mind". This
>store is run by psychiatric survivors and the items sold in the store
>are made by psychiatric survivors.
As long as these "stores" do not become another form of sheltered
workshop, where only a few folks get real jobs - others live off the
crumbs. People need opportunities to escape poverty, not continue it.