Organizers of the Bridges out of Poverty workshop were hoping to attract about 50 to 60 participants to their workshop on Wednesday. Instead, 140 residents of the area showed up, smashing their expectations. “This has happened in Cornwall in the past,” said Carilyne Hébert, executive director of the Social Development Council of Cornwall and Area […]
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Thea’s Weekend of Tending and Befriending
By Lauren Bus * Names have been omitted to respect the privacy of participants * On July 22, in the sleepy beach village of Camlachie, Ont., nearly 20 women gathered for a weekend of sisterhood with women they had never met before. They were the participants and contributors of A Woman’s Worth: A Wellness Retreat […]
Circles program a great example of people finding solutions
Each of us has likely heard of the capitalist economy, the sharing economy and the information economy, but usually not of the solutions economy of which we have several examples right here in Sarnia-Lambton. Circles Canada is one such example – providing a program to enable individuals to lift themselves out of poverty by setting […]
