Inside the Glastonbury/West Edmonton Men’s Shed on Monday nights once a month, there’s a hum of saws, sanders and conversation.

“The Men’s Shed program is a drop-in program where men from the community just come together to work on projects together and at the same time support one another,” liaison Brian Geislinger said.

“(We) meet on an informal basis and we really work together on a lot of different community projects. ”

Originally founded in Australia in the 1990s, the grassroots Men’s Sheds program was brought to Canada in the early 2000s. Since then, it’s grown to more than 140 Sheds operating across 10 provinces.

The groups focus on men’s health and addressing social isolation.

Men’s Sheds address the reality that men tend to only make connections at work. If they are reti

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