Popular Education on Poverty Issues

NAPO has developed a number of popular education workshops on poverty issues to assist local groups in doing public education on poverty issues.

Workshops

• Suggestions for organizing and planning educational workshops
• Icebreakers - to use at the beginning of any educational workshop
• Living Wage Workshop - a two hour workshop designed to help people gain an understanding of what a "living wage" might be in their community and explore how they can take action to make the minimum wage a living wage.
• Human Rights Workshop - a three hour workshop designed to introduce people to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and how to use these rights to fight poverty.

Quizes

• Poverty Quiz Test your knowledge of poverty in Canada on this interactive quiz.
• Child Poverty Quiz (from Campaign 2000)

Videos

There are a number of videos on poverty that NAPO would recommend:

• No Place Called Home - National Film Board film Directed by Craig Chivers and Produced by Peter Starr. The film follows the Rice Family over the course of a year as they move from town to town in Southern Ontario, searching for safe and affordable housing.
• Human Rights, Use them or lose them - Produced by Low Income Families Together (LIFT) and CineFocus Canada. This video and associated workshop kit are designed to help communities understand why we should fight for human rights before it is too late. Available for $50 from NAPO at 1-800-810-1076.

Photo Exhibits

The Women and Fair Income Group in Calgary has produced a photo exhibit and report called, Women's Perspectives on Poverty which tells the story of women living in poverty with photos taken by the women themselves. The group has made the photos available for exhibit in a number of communities across Canada and is also able to facilitate educational workshops. For more information check out the Women and Fair Income web site at or contact them at [email protected].