First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition has just released their 2015 Child Poverty BC Report Card, a comprehensive annual document that analyzes data on child and family poverty in the province. Since starting the project in 1994, the statistic of one in every five children in B.C. are poor remains. Read the full report here.
Food Banks Canada, a national charitable organization dedicated to helping Canadians living with food insecurity, recently released their 2015 HungerCount report. The document presents the results from an annual study on hunger and food bank use across the country, as well as makes recommendations for positive change. A few key stats pulled from the report: … Read more
The fourth annual Welfare Food Challenge, which explores the connections between poverty, climate change, food security and welfare, wrapped up yesterday. People taking part in the six-day event from Nov. 3 to Nov. 9 were required to eat only what they could buy with $21. Learn more about the participants and this year’s challenge.
Being at the top of the charts is usually a good thing, unless that chart is showing the child poverty rates in B.C. federal ridings. Richmond ranks third in the province at 27.6 per cent. The statistics were compiled by First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition and Campaign 2000, a national public education movement … Read more
The BC Rental Housing Coalition — comprised of the BC Non-Profit Housing Association and other local housing organizations — wants to make affordable housing a 2015 federal election issue, and you can help. The coalition has developed a toolkit that defines the three talking points (building rental housing, supporting tenants and integrating housing policy), as … Read more
It’s no secret that adequate and affordable housing is an ongoing issue here in Richmond, as well as other parts of the Lower Mainland. Here is Richmond PRC chairperson De Whalen’s letter to the editor she submitted to the Richmond News recently on the subject: At last, a Richmond Councillor who is prepared to be … Read more
If you are unemployed, live in Richmond and looking to gain some transferrable skills to help you find and maintain employment, there are two programs being offered by Job Options BC that just might be the right fit. Here is a breakdown below: What do the Urban Older Workers and Job Options Programs offer? Up to … Read more