this is going to be a very useful discussion,
especially for people like me who come from regions
were seeng, and handling people with poverty "makes me
sick", we must not just sit there and watch but do
something. what i have seen people do in my country is
a community participation sort of thing were grous or
communities shoulder an individual problem, and in the
spirit of "harambee"-- together, those inequalities
are kind of bridged.
Jackline sitienei
--- Dennis Raphael
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> "It is one of the greatest contemporary social
> injustices that people who
> live in the most disadvantaged circumstances have
> more illnesses, more
> disability and shorter lives than those who are more
> affluent." - Benzeval,
> Judge & Whitehead, 1995, pxxxi. Tackling
> Inequalities in Health: An Agenda
> for Action.
>
> City of Calgary, Community & Neighbourhood Services
> South Area Office in
> partnership with ACAP-Calgary, Calgary & District
> Labour Council, and
> Disability Action Hall will be hosting a Community
> Forum on Poverty and
> Health on November 5th at Carpenters Hall. The
> agenda will be as follows:
>
> 5:30 p.m.
> Free community dinner
>
> 6:30 to 7:15 p.m.
> Key note speaker: Dr. Dennis Raphael: Dr. Dennis
> Raphael from the School of
> Health Policy and Management at York University will
> share his work around
> poverty as a key social determinant of health, and
> consider how health
> policy continues to ignore poverty and social
> exclusion as very significant
> health determinants.
>
> 7:15 to 8:30 p.m.
> Discussion: During discussion, we will share our
> experiences of how poverty
> affects health, consider how people living in
> poverty can strengthen their
> collective voice in speaking out about poverty in
> our community, and how
> people in poverty can ally with social and health
> services to move forward
> on a pro-health and anti-poverty agenda.
>
> This free event will be of particular interest to
> those interested in
> poverty issues, including people living in poverty
> and their allies. We
> would very much appreciate your assistance in
> spreading the word about this
> event.
>
> Poverty Makes Me Sick
> Wednesday, November 5, 2003
> Carpenters Hall, 301 - 10th Street NW
> Calgary (Kensington)
>
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