Antipoverty Dates, Advocacy, and Actions

Key dates

• November: Antipoverty Month
• April 12: Equal Pay Day
• June 12: World Day Against Child Labour
• October 16: World Food Day
• October 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
• November 27: Buy Nothing Day
• December 10: Human Rights Day 

Advocacy and actions

• Join the call for a poverty reduction plan organized by the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition.
• Contact your MLA.
• Listen to and tell classroom stories.
• Have students write letters to their MLAs and/or newspapers.
• Post statistics in the classroom.
• Post to a poverty discussion group.
• Discuss/implement food programs in your school.
• Lobby for support for food programs.
• Combine your school food drive with a BC Poverty Reduction Coalition lesson, such as Share the Weight or Justice Not Charity.
  
• Become aware of poverty issues and how they affect your students.
• Start an antipoverty group.
  
• Participate in the Welfare Food Challenge. (2017)