YWCA offers extra Christmas support for single parents

Every morning Princess Sarcol gets up early to put her eldest son Miguel to bed via FaceTime. He tells her a story about his day or plays a song for her, then she watches as he falls asleep.
Miguel, 11, lives half a world away in the Philippines. Sarcol lives in Vancouver with her second child, Nathan, 3.
On Christmas Eve, the Vancouver mother will log on to FaceTime to spend Christmas morning with Miguel. “Not being with him will be the hardest part of Christmas,” said Sarcol, who c