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Welcome to the Keep the Promise National Student Summit space!

Classrooms across the country completed three activities on the issue of poverty in their communities in order to participate in a national student summit in Ottawa November 18-19, 2014.

1. They held classroom discussions using the Poverty, What is it? Discussion Booklet. This exercise increased awareness and a deeper understanding of a complex societal issue.
2. They looked for community statistics on the issue: population, unemployment, number of food banks and shelters. This exercise successfully sought out research skills and critical thinking.
3. By now, students are bubbling with ideas to make a difference in their own communities, and make a difference they will!!

At the Student Summit, the culminating activities encouraged a sharing of community findings and ideas, leading to a consensus-building exercise to determine what student voices have to say on the issue of poverty in Canada and what questions they’d like to ask of policy makers. A public Town Hall was livestreamed and students had the opportunity to ask those questions to politicians, and to meet grassroots and national organizations working towards the cause of eliminating child poverty in Canada.

THANK YOU to the fifty-five students and thirty teachers who spent time, energy and commitment to the cause. BRAVO!!

• Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation School, Glenevis, AB
• Aqsarniit Middle School, Iqaluit, NU
• Asbestos-Danville-Shipton Elementary School, Danville, QC
• Beachy Cove Elementary School, Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s, NL
• Bruno Central School, Bruno, SK
• Chief Poundmaker School, Cut Knife, SK
• Children of the Earth Secondary School, Winnipeg, MB
• Drummondville Elementary School, Drummondville, QC
• Duke of Connaught Public School, Toronto, ON
• École élémentaire Pavillon de la jeunesse, Hamilton, ON
• École Victor-Brodeur, Victoria, BC
• Elmwood High School, Winnipeg, MB
• Geary Elementary School, Geary, NB
• Greenfield Elementary School, New Waterford, NS
• Hines Creek Composite School, Hines Creek, AB
• Holy Trinity High School, Kanata, ON
• Jack Hulland Elementary, Whitehorse, YT
• Montague Consolidated School, Montague, PEI
• Mother Teresa High School, Nepean, ON
• Sacred Heart High School, Stittsville, ON
• St. Leonard Catholic School, Manotick, ON
• The Leo Baeck Day School (North/South Campus), Toronto, ON
• Weledeh Catholic School, Yellowknife, NT