Officials at the Calgary Dream Center hope it's the beginning of a new life for a homeless man.

Executive Director Jim Moore says Randy McDonald has recovered enough to stay at the center....

"He was sleeping in an alley and covered himself over with boxes, the next thing he knew is someone doused him in lighter fluid and lit him on fire and burned the lower half of his body. The next thing he knew was he woke up in the burn unit in the foothills hospital."

Moore says Mcdonald will be made comfortable by the staff and other residents of the center.