CANADA
Chatham Daily News
By Ellwood Shreve, Chatham Daily News
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
A valuable project that helps survivors of male sexual abuse will have to try to survive without its major source of funding.
Tom Wilken said the Diocese of London has committed another $80,000 to the Silence to Hope (STH) project for 2014, which will be the eighth and final year it will provide the funding.
“We’ve had a good run, we’ve had some really good sponsorship from the Diocese,” he said. “We’ve been able to do a lot of good.
“We wish it could continue, but at least we got what we’ve got,” he added.
The Diocese began providing the funding to help male sexual assault survivors who had been victimized by a representative of the Catholic church. Wilken said the funding is not limited to male victims abused by clergy, but for any man who has been sexually abused.
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