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Take Action Against Poverty!
Post date: November 17, 2009
Campaign 2000 and its partners will be releasing our annual Report Card on Child and Family Poverty on Nov. 24th, 2009 in cities across Canada, including the annual national Report Card in Ottawa, and 7 provincial Report Cards in Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Halifax and Saint John. This is a special release, marking 20 YEARS since the all-party resolution in the House of Commons to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000.
Today, 1 in 10 children still lives in poverty. You can help us hold our leaders accountable! Join us in letting our elected representatives know that it’s time to take action. Follow the link here to the Make Poverty History website and send a message to your MP and the Prime Minister Harper.
IT’S TIME TO END CHILD AND FAMILY POVERTY
Over the past 20 years, we’ve made progress and our movement is achieving results. There is growing momentum with seven provincial governments now developing or implementing poverty reduction plans for their provinces.
We need federal leadership. We need poverty reduction strategies for Canada! It’s time to act on the promise to our children.
Campaign 2000 and its partners will be releasing our annual Report Card on Child and Family Poverty on Nov. 24th, 2009 in cities across Canada, including Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Halifax and Saint John. You can download a copy of all our report cards as of Nov. 24th this year, so stay tuned. There will be a series of community events being planned to mark the day.
Get involved with FST, Campaign 2000 and our partners:
- You may choose to get involved in the work of Campaign 2000 or that of our partners across the country.
- See the events calendar below for activities near you.
- Make a personal donation to Campaign 2000.
- To obtain further information, contact us.
You can download a copy of all our report cards as of Nov. 24th this year, so stay tuned.
Calendar of Events on/around November 24th, 2009
To mark this special shameful day, there will be a series of community events being planned from coast to coast to draw attention to the situation and to call on our elected politicians and the public to take action.
Here’s a list of what’s happening across the country:
Apart from the release of provincial Report Cards, there are other events being planned and organized by our partners in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Contact Liyu Guo at liyugu@familyservicetoronto.org for further info and updates.
As well, in commemorating the 20th year of the all-party resolution to end child poverty, the National Film Board is working with a number of organizations and agencies, including Campaign 2000, in a series of film screenings and community forums of Four Feet Up (http://films.nfb.ca/four-feet-up/?mid=9601) in the evening of Nov. 24, 2009 in up to 12 cities, including Vancouver, Regina (??), Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Wolfville (N.S.) and Fredericton. Please contact Amy Stewart Gallant at: a.stewart@nfb.ca for more info on this event.
