Stand Up Against Poverty!

Lambton College students at the 2015 anti-poverty rally
call on all of us to make poverty history.

On Friday, October 13 at noon, citizens of Sarnia will gather on the front steps of city hall to voice their belief in the possibility of a poverty-free Canada. Organized by Dignity for All, this annual event brings people together to call for a national strategy to end poverty.

Please join us if you can!

Chew on This!

Today is celebrated as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Here at Lambton College, we’ve chosen to mark the day by participating in the Chew on This campaign. The campaign is organized by Dignity for All, a Canadian anti-poverty group.

Please visit our table outside reception in A-hall between 11 and 1 today: volunteers will be distributing apples and information about poverty.

Thanks for your support!

Anti-Poverty Rally

Last Friday, almost 100 concerned community members gathered on the steps of Sarnia's city hall to encourage action against poverty.

Here are a few of the photographs from last week's Anti-Poverty Rally. 

Peace begins when the hungry are fed.

Second-year SSW student Katie Horvath
with her daughter, Kali.

Lambton SSW students

 

Students display their signs for
passing motorists.

Lambton College's SSW students

Tomorrow: Anti-Poverty Rally downtown

photo and design credit: Katie Horvath

Friday: Anti-Poverty Rally

Friday, October 16, 2015

12:00 Noon

Sarnia City Hall

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Living in poverty reduces a person’s health, limits their education and employment opportunities, affects their mental health and tears away at their dignity & self-respect.

Karen Mathewson – Community Legal Assistance Sarnia

Myles Vanni - The Inn of the Good Shepherd,

Thea deGroot – Citizens for Public Justice Lauren Duncan- Circles

The Federal Government needs to create a national anti-poverty plan and a national affordable housing plan. Join us to urge the parties running in the federal election to implement anti-poverty and affordable housing plans. Join us to let them know poverty in Canada is unacceptable and an affront to Human Rights!

Donate your lunch money or purchase a

Make Poverty History bracelet to support The Inn of the Good Shepherd

Dignity for All: Upcoming Anti-Poverty Workshop

This past February, a group called Dignity for All released an anti-poverty plan for Canada. (Our Advisory Committee member Kelly Chappell Finch wrote a helpful blog post about the plan, which you can read here. Kelly’s post also includes a link to the pdf of the full report.)

Now we have a chance to learn more about the report and to discuss its implications for Sarnia. On Thursday, May 28, from 9-11, the local Poverty Reduction Network will be hosting a workshop at Living Hope Christian Reformed Church, located at 1281 Exmouth Street in Sarnia. Anyone who would like to learn more about poverty, both locally and nationally, is invited to attend. Participants in the workshop will become part of the discussion about the causes of poverty and the structural changes necessary to equality for all.

Attendance is free.

You may have read last month’s article in The Observer about the workshop.

If you’d like more information about the workshop, please leave a note in the comments section or email me directly: erica.kelly@lambtoncollege.ca