Impact Stories

Before Sonya started programs at the Saint John Women’s Empowerment Network, she felt like a lost soul. At every turn, she was desperate to hide from others, from life. She felt like she didn’t know how to speak up for herself. 

Alex’s post-traumatic stress got so bad that he started to think that the only way to find relief was to end his life. 

Noah had been working for several years in minimum wage jobs that were not the best fit for him and were not offering good financial security.   At 22 years old, he was seeking more for his future.

When Joe’s wife left and he was confronted with raising his daughter alone, he knew she would need a strong female role model. “I knew it would be a struggle to raise a daughter alone, I just didn’t realize how hard it would be,” Joe says. 

Nicole Perreault-Dryland, a newcomer to Canada, had just settled into St. Stephen with her family when she enrolled in the Enterprising Women Accelerator.

Jessica always wanted to go to university or college to prepare her for a career working with children and vulnerable youth.

When six-year-old Agam arrived in Sussex with his family from India, they were seeking a new and better life.

At Milltown Elementary School, students can enrol in a special camp at the school over the summer that focuses on helping them maintain literacy and numeracy over the two-month break. Gavin wasn’t able to attend the camp to help combat “summer slide” – regressing on academics during the summer break.