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Hear how the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre in Halifax is growing

The Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre has diversifiedits services to provide help with food insecurity, homelessness, child care and employment opportunities. Listen to an interview with executive director Pam Glode-Desrochers.

Centre has expanded its services to help Indigenous people with food insecurity, housing, child care

The Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre is located in north-end Halifax, but it serves the thousands of Indigenous people living across Nova Scotia. (Zoe Tennant/CBC)

Pam Glode-Desrochers has been working to improve services for Indigenous people across Nova Scotia for 14 years.

She'sthe executive director of the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre in Halifax.

Under the direction of Glode-Desrochers, the centre has diversifiedits services to provide help with food insecurity, homelessness, child care and employment opportunities.

Although the centre has madeprogress, Glode-Desrochers said there's still much to be done to ensure a better future for Indigenous people.

Pam Glode-Desrochers is the executive director of the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre. (CBC )

"It's going to be worth the work. It's going to be worth the time," Glode-Desrochers told the host of CBC Radio's Mainstreet earlier this month.

Listen to Jeff Douglas's full interview with Glode-Desrochers to hear what's happening at the centre, how it has helped thousands of urban Indigenous people and what is coming next.