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Winnipeg Harvest, along with The Asper Foundation, today announced a new training facility located at Winnipeg Harvest to teach skills to clients which will help them find a job.

The Asper Learning and Friendship Village is offering life-skills training and a safe gathering place for food bank clients, at-risk youth, immigrants, low-income families and refugees.

“Harvest is grateful and humbled to work with the Asper Foundation on this important initiative,” David Northcott, the Winnipeg Harvest executive director, said in a statement. “The Asper Learning and Friendship Village will help our clients become more self-sufficient.”

David Asper, chair of the Asper Foundation, said the project is a grassroots effort that he believes will make a difference in people’s lives.

“You can think of change in broad, sweeping terms but I think you have to be more realistic and think about it one person at a time,” Asper said. “That’s what this program is going to try to do. You have nurture people.”

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Among its many facets, the program will provide individuals with training in areas like food handling, fork lift operation, computer skills and allow access to computers for job applications.

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