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Sarnia Observer: Some Squaring the Circle

POVERTY: Anti-poverty program first in Canada

by Shawn Jeffords (article link)

Editor's note: This is the first in a five-part series about the Circles Poverty Reduction Strategy and the participants whose lives it is changing. Lambton County is the first Canadian municipality to launch Circles, which has had considerable success in the U. S.

Crystal Fach struggles under the weight.

The 29-year-old mother of two boys stands in the middle of a circle of people in a south-end church basement, smiling...