The Garceau Foundation was born out of a desire to provide the highest level of financial, professional and organizational support to frontline community action and social service groups tackling our most daunting challenges…health, hunger and homelessness. The need for the most effective intervention on behalf of these groups, already operating with strained resources, will become ever more acute. Ours is a nation of wealth, but with only a thin veneer of affluence. Recently released government studies demonstrate that one-third of our urban households live below the poverty line and that the median household income in Canada has increased just slightly more than $100 a year over the past twenty-five years. Government programs do not always meet local needs and more and more non-governmental organizations are filling the gaps with more and more Canadians turning to them for help.
The Garceau Foundation was born out of a desire to provide the highest level of financial, professional and organizational support to frontline community action and social service groups tackling our most daunting challenges…health, hunger and homelessness. The need for the most effective intervention on behalf of these groups, already operating with strained resources, will become ever more acute.
Ours is a nation of wealth, but with only a thin veneer of affluence. Recently released government studies demonstrate that one-third of our urban households live below the poverty line and that the median household income in Canada has increased just slightly more than $100 a year over the past twenty-five years. Government programs do not always meet local needs and more and more non-governmental organizations are filling the gaps with more and more Canadians turning to them for help.
C’est en harmonisant mon engagement communautaire et mon travail d’avocate que je peux intervenir de façon plus efficace dans ma communauté. Mes multiples activités me permettent ainsi de conjuguer les efforts d’un plus grand nombre de personnes et d’améliorer le sort des plus démunis. Parmi les enjeux et dossiers portés à notre attention récemment, les plus poignants concernent les trois principaux maux de notre société : les carences en santé particulièrement chez les enfants, la faim et l’itinérance. Impossible de rester les bras croisés devant tant de misère! À titre de présidente de la Fondation Garceau, je crois qu’aucun parmi nous ne peut rester inactif devant ces réalités. C’est pourquoi, j’ai décidé de mettre mes années d’expérience dans le réseautage politique et communautaire, de même que dans les campagnes de financement, au profit de la Fondation Garceau, dont le premier projet majeur est notre spectacle Les Lilas de Cassandra «Adoucir les conditions». Inspiré du prénom de ma fille, Cassandra, le symbolisme du lilas est évocateur. Le lilas, comme un enfant, est une belle fleur mais fragile. www.garceaufoundation.ca
