Fire damages North End Women’s Centre
Posted July 21, 2024 5:12 pm.
A women’s centre in Winnipeg’s North End was damaged by a fire early Sunday morning.
The North End Women’s Centre (NEWC) sustained fire damage to the front entrance of its main building – at 394 Selkirk Avenue.
A photo posted to the centre’s Facebook page shows bricks and a sign at the building’s entrance blackened by fire.
“We are very lucky that it wasn’t worse,” the centre wrote in the post.
The NEWC says the drop-in centre will be closed Monday “because we don’t have safe access for community to enter.”
It was also forced to cancel a full moon ceremony – an outdoor drumming event –scheduled for Monday evening.
The NEWC describes itself as the longest-running women’s resource centre in Winnipeg’s inner city.
