Single mothers and their children who were at risk of homelessness have moved into their new home at YWCA Alder Gardens, a new 36-unit supportive housing development in Surrey.

A Surrey child-care centre will hold a grand opening today at its new building - a beautifully restored heritage house with a new sandbox for building sandcastle masterpieces, a jungle gym for young acrobats to perform and giant cedar trees for playing hide and go seek.

Surrey has been identified as one of seven communities to participate in a pilot project where poverty reduction strategies will target the unique needs of families struggling to get out of poverty.

The Province is providing a grant of $500,000 to the interCultural Online Health Network (iCON), which offers health information to multicultural and Aboriginal families throughout B.C.

Modular housing that once provided accommodation to athletes during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Whistler has been relocated and converted into 52 affordable rental apartments for seniors and people with disabilities at risk of homelessness in Surrey.

The Province of B.C. has partnered with a local society to purchase and convert a residential home to provide eight beds for women in need of safe second-stage housing in Surrey.

Tomorrow is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Prevention and Support Day in B.C. and several community events are taking place in Surrey to help raise awareness about the disorder and the struggles that families living with FASD go through every day.