Every 24 hours, 140 women and children are turned away from housing in British Columbia. (BCSTH Census, 2024)

Somali Canadian Sahra Bulle, 36, was close to completing her undergraduate degree in criminology at the University of Windsor. She hoped to eventually work with vulnerable people in the criminal justice system.

With much anticipation, the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) and its partners are excited to release an 80-page toolkit based on a national study conducted over the past 1.5 years, seeking to understand gender-based violence (GBV) during the pandemic within the South Asian community in Canada.