Surrey has the largest Indigenous population of any municipality in BC. Targeted Indigenous investments have not kept pace with this demographic reality. The result: a growing community that doesn’t have the social infrastructure to support our most vulnerable. For example, 37% of Indigenous children in Surrey are living in poverty. That’s more than 1,600 Indigenous children who are having their future compromised by poverty. Using a social innovation approach, we set out to find a way to affect change.
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