
U of L students unveil “hope” mural for Streets Alive, raising $11,000
LETHBRIDGE, AB – “Hope” is the driving force behind everything Streets Alive Mission does in Lethbridge, and a new mural aims to remind everyone of that.
Students at the University of Lethbridge’s Integrated Management Experience (IME) program are tasked every year with supporting a local non-profit, and this year’s group worked with Streets Alive.
Student and Project Lead Ali Cyr says, due to complications with the COVID-19 pandemic, it took her group of 15 a while to figure out how they could raise money and awareness for the group, but it was eventually decided that a mural was the right way to go.
“The biggest thing Streets Alive wants to bring is hope. We wanted to bring hope for the clients that come through the Streets Alive building because, as we’ve seen with the pandemic, hope wanes and weaves, and our biggest thing was bringing something that’s here every day in the community to show the community is here and we care.”