If you are living on an income below $2,000 per month, please join our community meeting to share your views about living in poverty.
When: Monday, March 19 – 12:00 noon – 2:00 PM. Lunch is provided
Where: Positive Living BC – 1101 Seymour Street (2nd floor meeting room)
All participants must register – please RSVP to [email protected] or call Brandon at (604) 893-2259 or visit our EventBrite registration page to register.
Take home $20 for participating at this meeting
BC’s Poverty Reduction Strategy – HAVE YOUR SAY! The poverty rate in B.C. is among the worst in Canada. Too many people are struggling to make ends meet, earn a living wage, or find and keep affordable housing. Too many families are suffering without basic necessities, relying on food banks, going hungry or sending their children to school hungry. It’s time to lift people out of poverty.
The provincial government is building a poverty reduction strategy, and you can help. As a first step, the B.C. government raised income assistance and disability rates by $100 per month to help people who need it most. This is only the beginning. There’s more to do. One of the critical next steps is to build and implement a province-wide poverty reduction plan with targets and timelines. And we want your help. Feedback will be collected between October 30, 2017 and March 30, 2018 at 4 PM.
There are several ways to participate:
- Attend a Community Meeting
- Attend a Métis Poverty Reduction Engagement Session
- Attend an Indigenous Poverty Reduction Consultation at Friendship Centres across BC
- Submit your feedback by email, mail or phone.
- Complete the online feedback form on the BC government website.
If you are unable to attend this or any other Community Meeting on BC’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, please visit https://engage.gov.bc.ca/bcpovertyreduction/ to provide your input online before March 30, 2018 at 4:00 PM.