The Fight Against Poverty

Today, approximately three million Canadians, or one in 11 people, live in poverty. Poverty is a life circumstance whereby a person lacks the resources, means, choices and power needed to survive and participate in society. The effects of poverty are quite serious:

• It requires people to make painful choices between necessities, such as paying the rent or feeding the kids, going to the dentist or buying a monthly bus pass.


• It often leads to hunger or unhealthy eating, poor health, interrupted schooling, homelessness or poor quality housing, substance abuse, crime, violence and despair.


• Those who experience poverty have a shorter lifespan, and often suffer physically and emotionally.


• Those who live in poverty often require higher than average use of publicly funded programs like welfare, hospitals, police and correctional services which
  increases taxes.

The fight against poverty deserves our attention. Please click one of the links in our drop-down menu to see how you can help be a hero in our war on poverty and homelessness.