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LifeSkills Centre
412 £ Cordova
Vancouver B.C.
V6A 1L6
604-678-8278
604-678-8279

February 16,2005
To Whom It May Concern:

The LifeSkills Centre is a unique and groundbreaking resource centre for drug
users in the Downtown Eastside. The centre provides a barrier free environment
for drug users to access basic services such as laundry , and showers, and to
enter low threshold programs and classes. Many ofjthe initiatives provided
through the LifeSkills Centre are based on the idea hat there is hope for people
living with addictions. The LifeSkills Centre's missio^ is to empower the lives of
our visitors and create opportunities for those who aire hardest to reach and have
the least in material and cultural capital.
We at LifeSkills feel to participate in, and support Ncbva Library is an extremely
valuable and important opportunity. Initiatives like Nova break down the barriers
visually, socially, and philosophically between class structures that marginalized
population's face on a daily basis, To create a truly nclusive body of literature
dreamed of by high risk drug and alcohol users hurrlanises communities for the
disenfranchised and mainstream society. We write in solidarity with the artist, and
organizers of this distinctive and exceptional project

;oco Culbertson,
Director The LifeSkills Centre

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