The Many Faces of Poverty and Homelessness: A Global Learning Project for K-12 Students

The Many Faces of Poverty and Homelessness: A Learning Space Just for Students: Grades K-6

Rows of beds in a homeless shelter

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The Cycle of Child Poverty
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
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Homelessness: Organizations and People Taking Action
Youth in Action!

The 2007 Homeless Count in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Do you know how many homeless people there are in your community? What about in other urban and rural areas throughout your country? In November of 2006 the City of Calgary Community and Neighbourhood Services and Volunteers attempted to understand the actual number of homeless individuals there are in the city of Calgary.

» Read the detailed result of the 2006 Homeless Count in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Shelters and Organizations Throughout Canada

Special Projects

Homelessness: Organizations and People Taking Action!

The issues of poverty and homelessness are growing problems in the country of Canada. Even though it seems like we have a rapidly growing economy, many people struggle in spite of others' success.

Taking significant action implies that we truly care about the issue and are willing to put considerable energy into its success. Take a moment to consider what the issue of homelessness looks like in your community. Is it a growing problem? How do we know? What are others doing about it?

"Just Call me and Leave a Message..."

What do you do when you are expecting a phone call? It's pretty simple isn't it? We just give out our phone number. If we miss the call we simply pick up the message through voicemail. Imagine now that you are homeless or too poor to have a telephone. How do you connect with someone you cannot find?

Find out more about how this project seeks to create a voicemail system for clients at the Calgary Drop-in Centre to help with this issue.

»Visit voices of the community.ca

Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home

Because the cost of living continues to increase while in may cases many are not making a living wage, renting an affordable appartment or home can be next to impossible. Learn more about how CUPS has created a Low Cost Housing Website for the City of Calgary. People can search for accomodation and owners can post their affordable accomodation for rent.

» Visit lowcostrent.org

United Way of Calgary Logo

The United Way and CTV television have created "The Great City Project" that provides citizens of Calgary the opportunity to share his/her ideas with other Calgarians about how to make Calgary a truly great city for everyone. It features some interesting thoughts about the issues of homelessness in the City of Calgary.

» Visit The Great City Project

Home To A Million

What happens when a city that was designed for 250,000 people has to support a population explosion? How are lives affected when Calgary reaches and passes 1,000,000 people? Explore how the students at Glendale Elementary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada is creating public service announcements (PSAs) to teach others about how the issue of homelessness has increased as a result of this population boom.

» View the City TV news coverage

» Explore the class website and watch the PSAs!

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!

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