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Welcome to the Fredericton Anti-Poverty Organization website! On this website you will find information about the organization, its services, membership and constitution. We try to keep people up to date with what's happening by posting it on the website, so be patient if you notice we're falling behind. We're volunteers. If you have something you would like to tell us, please contact us at fapo@antipoverty.com or give us a call in Fredericton at 506-458-9102.
(Fredericton, NB - January 18, 2010) - Kelly Lamrock, New Brunswick's Minister of Social Development will speak at a public forum in Fredericton on Wednesday January 20 to explain recent changes to income assistance. The Minister will also speak about the government's Poverty Reduction Plan, which was announced in November in Saint John. The event is organized by the Fredericton Anti-Poverty Organization (FAPO) with the support of The Meeting Place Church and will be held at The Meeting Place on 487 Brunswick Street at 7 pm on Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Organizers encourage anyone who is interested in the issues of poverty and income assistance in New Brunswick to attend.
"We felt it was important that the Minister who represents Fredericton speak to the people in his own riding about the very big changes to policy that have been announced in the last two months," said Dan Weston, Coordinator of the Fredericton Anti-Poverty Organization. Weston said he's received a lot of phone calls and inquiries from people on Income Assistance who are concerned how the changes will affect them. "They're worried about a lot of things," Weston explained, "From the Economic Unit Policy to the health card and even the increased rates for single employables versus short term disabled." Pete Chalmers of The Meeting Place says the people he works with on a day-to-day basis through the Church outreach are pleased that the Minister of Social Development is coming to speak to them on their own turf. He says they have a lot of questions to ask about the province's Poverty Reduction Plan so he's hoping the Minister will listen to their concerns. "They are unsure how changes will impact on their daily lives so it's important that we hear from the Minister himself who can bring the most up to date information to the table and hopefully clarify the new rules for people living in poverty in New Brunswick," Chalmers said. - 30 - To download our poster go to http://www.antipoverty.com/documents/poster-jan-20-10.pdf For information on the Poverty Reduction Plan, please go to: http://www.gnb.ca/0017/Promos/0001/pdf/Plan-e.pdf For further information about the Public Forum, please contact: Dan Weston, Pete Chalmers To read the full story on the Poverty Reduction Plan on the CBC website, click here To read the full story on the CBC website, click here
Fredericton Anti-Poverty Organization: fighting poverty for 26 years Click here to read the full article in The Brief The Fredericton Anti-Poverty Organization (FAPO) has been providing material support, services, and advocacy to low-income people since 1983. The New Brunswick Media Co-op sat down with FAPO’s co-ordinator, Dan Weston, to find out more about the group’s operations. AM: What does FAPO do? DW: FAPO is a peoples’ organization and we exist to help people maintain their standard of living as best as possible. We have people who will speak publicly whenever asked, we organize community forums, we’re on the news all the time, and we try to organize low-income people but to try to tell people things is very difficult when they can’t hear the words so we have in a sense, an organization lying in waiting. Waiting for an economic situation to motivate people somewhat en mass and then maybe we can be of some help. At this particular time we have been helping people to maintain their living situation. It may seem like a contradiction in a sense that we would be waiting for an economic situation that would motivate the people politically en mass and at the same time try to help them out day-to-day to maintain themselves but we don’t see it as a contradiction because what we do is very small in the grand scheme of things, yet we can help people out day-to-day because things aren’t going to change right now. People have to deal with the situation that they’re faced with. So we try to help people out with that, not only materially, through these stores but we’ll help you struggle against the bureaucracy. We have fought and lost quite a few human rights situations and we help people in custody and those kinds of things. So we try to keep active and at the same time to be a peoples’ organization, that’s there for people and to struggle for them. Click here to read the full article in The Brief
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Kelly Lamrock to Speak at Public Forum on Recent Changes to Income Assistance Policies
