Each balloon represents a person who lost their life to drug use in the first six months of 2020, though final numbers for the year are currently not known. Sometimes we hear a number we re just trying to show how big that number is, said Rebecca Rummery with Overdose Awareness Manitoba. What we re here to do is just bring awareness and to show all these kids faces that we have lost, and to really humanize the issue of overdose and know that they are somebody s someone.
Rebecca Rummery co-founded Overdose Awareness Manitoba after losing her boyfriend to an overdose in 2018.(Travis Golby/CBC)