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37 " The biggest success is that this project not only taught me how to garden (it was my first garden!), It also gave fruitful harvests (at least 10 baskets of vegetables per week), but the biggest success for me has been in bonding with the community and breaking people's social isolation. In fact, the garden is located on a very busy street and the people who walked by the garden would stop to chat with us, congratulate us on the garden and get to know us. By the end of the fall, we knew the names of several people in the neighborhood. For me, it is this sense of community that has been the greatest success of the project, especially in times of a pandemic where one can feel isolated and alone. " " I was happy to see how young people wrote messages to touch the hearts of older people. I knew how to convey to them the importance that these messages could have for these people. " " It was to see how proud the young people were of their work. Proud to see their harvest from the garden. To see the bonds of friendship develop between young people who would probably not have known each other otherwise, if they would not have had this opportunity to work on a collective project. " " As soon as the government of Quebec gave the authorization to trick or trear on Halloween night, we began to install the decorations and put security measures in place. The inhabitants of the district noticed them and many of them asked us questions about the project and the respect of the sanitary instructions. This created excitement and encouraged families in our area to safely collect and distribute Halloween treats, even during a pandemic. I am convinced that having decorated earlier encouraged other homes to do the same, and thus helped to continue the tradition of door-to-door Halloween in our neighborhood, despite COVID-19. " SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL INCLUSION

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