Family Services of the North Shore presents an evening with Anita Roberts (Safeteen Founder) and West Vancouver Mayor Pamela Goldsmith Jones on March 3.
Guo Yia Jiang lives in the heart of the Downtown Eastside. His room is small, cramped and is made more so by his walker, a bed, a small stove, a table and a couple of chairs.
There is a growing call across our province for British Columbia to commit to legislating targets and time lines to dramatically reduce and ultimately end poverty and homelessness. The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, including United Way of the Lower Mainland, believes this to be an achievable goal and has launched a new open letter to renew this call.
United Way’s Women United in Philanthropy Walk in their Shoes luncheon took place on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. The event highlighted a staggering fact that approximately 30 per cent of six year olds in the Lower Mainland are not developmentally ready to succeed by the time they enter school.
