Although Résiste à la rue began its activities in the fall of 2022, the organization is
officially incorporated as a non-profit organization in January 2023.
Pat Dupuis, worked for several years with Notre Dame de la rue as a worker in Street. Pat, accompanied by Marcel Picard and the priest Claude criss-crossed the neighborhoods disadvantaged people of Montreal to meet the most disadvantaged, the homeless. During his conferences in front of benefactors and donors, he sent this message deep meaning: ‘we’re all one step away from being on the streets, no matter how many decimal places are there in his bank account”, street work is a heart business, not a cash business.
Always the bearer of this message, and on the strength of his experience, Pat took up the torch and founded Resiste à la rue meaning, to avoid ending up on the street, to be able to live on the street without suffering too much, to get off the street.