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Other Local Special Projects

• Keeping Employed: The Role of Affordable Transportation
• What is a "Living Wage" and Why Does it Matter?
• Calculating Poverty and the Cost of Living
• The Cycle of Child Poverty
• Drug and Alcohol Abuse
• Access to Safe Water: Is it Equitable for Everyone?
• Youth in Action!

Vibrant Communities Calgary

Vibrant Communities Calgary is an organization that brings together individuals concerned about poverty and its effects. Their goal is to help to develop strategies to address the root causes of poverty in our community. One of their projects is concerned with addressing a "living wage" in the Calgary community.

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Special Projects

What is a "Living Wage" and Why Does it Matter?

Do you know what it means to be "the working poor?" Click here to find out more...

A Living Wage is the amount of income an individual or family needs to meet their basic needs and to have a safe, decent standard of living in their community.

A Living Wage For All...

Many organizations are concerned with creating a Living Wage for working citizens and have created goals for the people of their community.

In the 1990's, Living Wage campaigns have been launched by many organizations in the United States to help deal with increasing poverty faced by workers and their families. Today, Living Wage initiatives have been successful in 134 communities across the United States.

Test your Knowledge About Child and Family Poverty in Canada

Learn more about what needs to happen to make sure that children and families do not live in poverty. Take this poverty quz.

How can we make this a world fit for all children?

Kurtis, Gr. 12, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

What to do!

You can share your ideas as an individual or classroom. Share your thoughts, interviews with others, stories, artwork, photographs, research, or any special project that you create here on this site. We will share them in this special project's gallery (Visit our gallery by clicking the gallery icon at the top of this page.) Contact us to submit your ideas!

"I know we're poor, but it's what we are- not who we are." Kay Rice