Poverty doesn’t need to exist
There is plenty of evidence linking poor health outcomes to poverty. As a young mom, 24-year-old Lisa struggled to make ends meet – she faced homelessness and not having enough food for her daughter. Because of your generosity, Lisa was able to get the help she needed through a United Way-funded support program for young moms and to move her family from poverty to possibility.
You can help support children, moms and others affected by poverty by donating to United Way during the VCH Workplace Campaign between November 14 and December 9, 2016.
Two ways to give
1. With your credit card on the secure United Way website
2. By payroll deduction using the printable pledge form *
* IMPORTANT: If you are using the printable pledge form, do not detach the bottom section. Please complete and send the whole form to:
Margaret Laird
Communications & Public Affairs
400 – 520 West 6th Ave.
Vancouver BC V5Z 4H5
The VCH United Way Workplace Campaign ends December 9, 2016.
About United Way
Your support helps the United Way of the Lower Mainland provide much needed supports to thousands of at-risk children, seniors and parents. Nutritious meals and housing—the very basics—are made available through United Way programs. These supports, in turn, help our clients and patients.
David Adam
The provocative title – Poverty Doesn’t Need to Exist – to your article is rather misleading. All the donations in the world to United Way will not end poverty. Yes poverty is a very important health risk as well as a recipe for disaffection, marginalization and unproductive lives. And it is useful for us all to practice generosity in whatever ways we can. But to rely on charity as the solution to poverty only helps governments duck their responsibility to make meaningful change to the system that creates and perpetuates it. And enables those who benefit in various ways from poverty to continue their oppressive and inhumane ways. We must all begin to feel the responsibility for those less advantaged and yes, give but also advocate, vote and act towards the reduction of the scourge of poverty in this wealthy country.
g bright
Article forgets to mention the ‘working poor’.
That’s anyone making less than $25/hr.
Last time I checked that was almost everyone working for Health care.
Charity begins and ends at home.