Kairos Organization Carries on Work of Jubilee Initiatives

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Group is `exercise in good faith'

Pat Steenberg's office at Kairos is all dangling wires, empty shelves, boxes and stacks of papers -- bearing witness to the challenge of combining 10 social-justice agencies into one. Executive director since July 1, 2001, Ms. Steenberg and 24 staff are perched in rabbit-warren quarters in a struggling neighborhood in east-end Toronto until offices in another location are renovated.

"We are building an organization, building an infrastructure from different focuses, different budgets, different people. It's been an enormous exercise in good faith on behalf of the staff and the people who support them," Ms. Steenberg said in an …