The White Lily Campaign is a non-partisan, volunteer based campaign that strives to mobilize Canadians, from coast to coast, who together will lend their voices in saying no to Child Poverty.
How in 2019, when Canada enjoys records level of national wealth are 1 in 6 children forced to go to bed hungry?
Community
THE SILENT MAJORITY SPEAKS:
2019 CANADA-WIDE POLL ON CHILD POVERTY
"Do you agree or disagree that child poverty in Canada is unacceptable and must be addressed immediately?"
9/27/20: 1 year ago today, Canadians from all walks of life engaged in a nation- wide climate strike. The WLC stands in solidarity, shoulder to shoulder, in the fight for climate justice. The Climate strike was a beautiful expression of collective action.
Key Statistics
In Canada, 1.3 million children live in conditions of poverty (that’s 1 in 5).
1 in 2 Status First Nations children lives in poverty.
8% of children in British Columbia live in poverty with children under the age of 6 representing an even higher poverty rate of 20.1% (both are higher than the national average of 18.5%)
1 in 5 Edmontonian children (under the age of 18) live in poverty, which increases to 1 in 3 children in single-parent families.
40% of Indigenous children in Canada live in poverty, and 60% of Indigenous children on reserves live in poverty.
More than one-third of food bank users across Canada were children in 2016.
About 1 in 7 of those using shelters in Canada are children.