This year marks 50 years since Nellie’s first opened its doors — and while it’s bittersweet for an organization like ours to be just as necessary now as it was…

Like so many of us, Neda Zanjani found herself becoming more reflective during the COVID-19 pandemic. While she spent more time at home, she began to think more about her…

When Maria Belfon was approaching the end of her maternity leave with her second child, she realized it was the perfect time to do something she’d been thinking about for…

Even when she was a teenager, Jeboah Miranda knew that one day, she would create her own non-profit to fight for women’s rights, and that she would be a keynote…

“There will be many more like me that will walk into Nellie’s … and come out stronger for it.” In 2017, Krystal Joseph showed up on Nellie’s doorstep, pregnant with…

The move to the new shelter building this past winter gave us much more than additional space. It made us one of just a handful of shelters in Toronto to…

Danijela Obradovic was barely 12 years old when the civil war in former Yugoslavia began. Danijela, along with her mother and older sister, left their hometown of Sarajevo, Bosnia. After…

Back in December, we hosted holiday parties for the women and their children living at Nellie’s. The holidays can be a difficult time when you are in living in a…

As a construction executive, Nancy Mrazek has been leading complex projects in Canada and the U.S. for over 25 years. “As a woman in a male-dominated environment, I have learned…

For almost 50 years, Nellie’s has provided shelter, dignity and hope to women and their children. As a community-based feminist organization, which operates within an anti-racist, anti-oppression framework, we are…