by John Freund, CM | Dec 4, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Balance a Working Poverty Budget You’re a single person living alone in Ontario and work 35 hours per week in a minimum-wage job with no benefits. Your monthly budget is $1435. Estimate your monthly expenses and try to balance this budget. (Try it even if you...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 17, 2012 | Vincentian Family
The Ontario Regional Council reports that the Ozanam Education Fund has been established to help provide educational funding for those trapped in poverty enabling them to obtain a decent job “We operate in a knowledge based world were knowledge and key skill...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 13, 2012 | Vincentian Family
James Paddon writes, “As president of the Ontario Canada SSVP, I’ve placed systemic change at the top of my list for my four year term. There is no doubt what the three most critical issues related to systemic change are. The first is the change or...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 13, 2012 | Vincentian Family
James Paddon, President of the SVDP Ontario region of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Canada writes that they have three education modules which they’ll begin to present in the coming months. These respond to a real interest amongst their members in learning...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 6, 2012 | Vincentian Family
The participants in the hugely successful Fourth Annual Pencil Case Project, “To Nicaragua With Love”, which included elementary schools in: Hamilton, London, Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, collaborated to send two and half tons of school supplies to...