The names and faces of dozens of people who lived and lost their lives on the streets of Moncton are currently memorialized in a downtown mural.
Sabrina Robichaud has been struggling with homelessness and substance use disorder for a decade.
Originally from Nova Scotia, Robichaud wanted to build a tribute for Moncton-area friends she’s lost over the years.
According to Robichaud, many of the 128 people on the wall didn’t have obituaries or funerals.
“That’s not right,” said Robichaud. “They are human. They are people. We might have went down the wrong roads that people didn’t want us to go down, but we all have our struggles. We all have our traumas and we all have different paths.”
It started out modestly about a week ago, but within a few days the memorial has grown with more and more tributes.
“Somebody came up and looked at a photo and said, …