poverty
Poverty
By James Bow
My publishing company, the Dundurn Group, has signed up for a blog blast on the subject of poverty, and as one of their authors, I volunteered to write up a post about poverty. Unfortunately, I almost missed the month. If I wanted to make excuses, I’d blame my kids, but the truth is, [...]
My Father’s View of Poverty
By Nicholas Maes
My father came to Canada from Holland in the early 1950s at the age of twenty-three. His origins were lower middle class (at a time when class mattered to the Dutch), and Europe was still recovering from the war. Not surprisingly, his pockets were empty when he stepped onto Canadian soil.
His first years [...]
There is enough
By Valerie Sherrard
There is enough. That’s the thing that’s so disturbing about poverty. Planet earth isn’t poor. There’s more than enough food to go around. There’s more than enough everything. Food, money and resources are all present in abundance. Wealth and plenty flow like water in opulent societies. [...]
POVERTY … the only thing money cannot buy
By Iris Nowell
Today’s poverty is commonly defined as a person surviving on less than a dollar a day, which applies to one-quarter of the world’s population, or roughly one billion people. This is beyond gravely concerning, it is inhumane. Some 20,000 people die every day because they are too hungry, too sick, and just too [...]
Crumbs from our table
By JoAnn Dionne
In Delhi, feverish with flu, I checked into the Hotel Furama to recuperate. I opened the curtains of my beautifully appointed room and, there, below, were dozens of people, mostly dark-skinned women in bright saris, picking through a field of garbage. The urge to close the curtains, to shut out such a disturbing [...]
Invisible poverty
During a conversation with friends over dinner the other night, I was shocked to learn that one of them had at one time lived in his car. While still a low-income earner, he is doing much better than he was several years ago during a crisis time of his life. His stories of life back [...]
