You can help by getting involved as a Circles® Ally (intentional friends supporting Circle Leaders on their plan of change to leave poverty), donating your time to prepare a meal for one of our Circles meetings or contributing financially to Circles® Lambton.
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Circles® strives to:
- Build relationships of mutual respect.
- Base plans on accurate mental model of poverty.
- Stabilize the environment.
- Address all causes of poverty.
- Base thinking on the premise that people in poverty are problem solvers.
- Define poverty as the extent to which an individual does without resources.
- Bring all classes to the decision making table.
- Build long-term support for transition.
- Build a sustainable community in which everyone can do well.
"Circles® isn't just an organization, we're a family"
Stand Up Against Poverty
Within in the Lambton County there are over seven thousand individuals living below the Low Income Cut Off, which represents more than 6% of Lambton's population experiencing poverty. Lambton Circles is committed to continuing to work with the Poverty Reduction Network of Sarnia-Lambton to promote awareness of the effects of poverty, as well as assisting those locally who are experiencing it.
You can help by getting involved as a Circles® Ally, donating your time to support programs and events, or simply learning more and increasing your own awareness of the effects of poverty in Lambton County by taking the Poverty Pledge and watching the Stand Up Against Poverty Rally below.