A national campaign aimed at raising awareness of youth homelessness has arrived in Windsor.
Vancouver businessman Joe Roberts was homeless at the age of 15. He turned his life around and is now a successful businessman but he wanted to do more.
He launched the "Push for Change" Campaign and is walking across the country pushing a shopping cart in a 517-day trek.
He visited three schools in Windsor Wednesday morning before arriving at Charles Clark Square just after the noon hour.
Roberts says he dropped out of three high schools as a teenager and nobody intervened.
"The best way to prevent, reduce and end youth homelessness is supporting young people when they are still in school. Giving them the resources they need to deal with family conflict, to deal with mental health or early childhood trauma or to give them the best opportunity to transition those times before they drop out of school and drop out of home," says Roberts.
His lowest point happened in 1989.
"Sitting on a park bench, three days before christmas and I ended up selling the boots on my feet for money to buy drugs, completely hopeless and desperate and that moment where I didn't want to be here anymore."
Roberts wants people to believe that ending homelessness is possible and he wants people to contact their MP calling for a serious investment to end homelessness.
Roberts ends his journey in Vancouver BC in September 2017.