Child Poverty

New Foundations - MCC BC Child Poverty Alleviation Project

New Foundations, in partnership with World Vision, is a program of MCC BC. The objective of New Foundations is the empowerment of its clients: single mother refugee claimants and newly-arrived sponsored refugees in Vancouver to improve their economic conditions via selected hands-on and life-giving community activities. These are:

Nutrition enhancement through community kitchen sessions and gardening, in which clients will acquire:

• Tips for affordable nutrition management for improved eating habits and healthy living

Job search and employability skills building through work experience and/or training including ESL, in which clients will get:

• Recognition of their innate talents for development into viable career/employment tools
• Assistance with improving their ESL skills for effective employability

Asset building via efficient financial management, in which clients will learn/gain:

• Valuable financial management skills through sound advice/mentoring
• Financial empowerment plan that helps build good savings via a generous matching fund
• Guidance in investing the resulting savings in well-thought-out project that will improve and sustain their future economy
   

For more information, contact: Chris Osahon Eigbike, Project Manager; Phone: 604-325-5510; Email: ceigbike@mccbc.com

The New Foundations office is located at 6426 Kerr Street, Vancouver, BC V5S 3C1