Surrey is a fast growing, dynamic community, recognized as an innovative leader in addressing social, economic and environmental issues in BC’s Lower Mainland. Vibrant Surrey is an important collaborator, contributor and facilitator in this arena.
We organize our work around three component goals: strengthening capacity and increasing social capital; incubating new initiatives; and facilitating knowledge sharing. Committed to addressing the ‘grey spaces’ related to poverty, Vibrant Surrey’s multi-sectoral membership works together to make the city a better place to live for all who call Surrey home.
For more information on Vibrant Surrey, visit their website here.
Unequal Canada
Vibrant Surrey was one of many British Columbia communities that took part in a province-wide video conference in December 2010 that featured Richard Wilkinson, author of The Spirit Level and other publications that show the link between income disparity and social ills including crime, infant mortality, life expectancy and mental illness. Vibrant Surrey made a short presentation about the work they are doing to reduce poverty at the community level.
For more, read Michael Shapcott’s, Greater Equality Is Better For Everyone: Richard Wilkinson.
|
