The Options Committee of Making Kenora Home is proposing the sixth poverty challenge, A Walk in Other’s Shoes. This year, we have asked our local business community to take the challenge.

Participants have been asked to attempt to stay within a social assistance benefits’ budget. A single person on Ontario Works would receive $305 per month, $10.00 per day, or $50.00 for the five-day period. A couple would receive $468 per month, allowing a daily budget of $15.60 or $78.00 for five days.

The budget includes all food and drink, entertainment, some personal supplies and transportation costs. Each participant will be given a daily challenge card, which will reveal an additional challenge to be completed before the end of each day.

The participants will experience some of the hurdles that people living on social assistance face. It is hoped that the event will raise awareness and break barriers for people living in poverty. The challenge takes place February 16th until February 21st, 2016.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

I'm feeling a bit disconnected, withdrawn and not wanting to do much or go anywhere ... I'm not having much fun being so preoccupied with what I don't have, or what I  might be wanting, or worse what I may come to need!  I dread going to the store for a few groceries, and having the sense of walking the wire.  Trying to stay focused on what I can afford and overlooking what I'd like but have to do without! The continual attention to what you don't have and what you need become more predominant, and the idea of a trip to the store seems to reinforce my instinct to retreat.   I think the longer we go with the consequences of having to do without, the more it chips away at our sense of self,. Our psyche is malnourished as well as our bodies and how can it not challenge our sense of well being !     Or am I just coming down with something?
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