Our students made cartoons examining poverty. You can see them here.

Four hundred students are lined up to get food from the North Okanagan Valley Cleaners from British Columbia, one of many groups helping people in Guatemala. Unfortunately, because of poverty, a lot of kids don't have enough food. Many people living in Guatemala struggles with poverty, which is the state of having few material possessions or little income. They don't have enough food, education, and they have bad living conditions. We can help these people receive food, education and better living conditions. We should help these people if we want a better future. If we can help people get a better education we would not have to struggle with poverty so much. Also people waste so much food every day but the people in Guatemala struggle to get even one meal a day, they also struggle with getting clean water and sanitation on a daily basis.

"Patrica Jackson's Story" "Jessica's Story" Poverty is linked with negative conditions such as substandard housing, homelessness, inadequate nutrition and food insecurity, inadequate child care, lack of access to health care, unsafe neighborhoods, and under resourced schools which adversely impact our nation's children. Not having money – or making below what is sustainable – has reaching impacts across a community. Living in poverty means being “food insecure,” or not knowing where your next meal will come from. It means empty refrigerators and hungry summers when there aren't school lunches to tide kids over.