The 2021 Annual Report on TogetherBC: B.C.’s Poverty Reduction Strategy shows poverty rates continued to decline as people benefited from COVID-19 relief and cross-government actions.

As many as 24 eligible people will receive employment skills to help them prepare for jobs as certified building maintenance workers in the Lower Mainland’s busy skilled trades sector.

Professional skills training is helping as many as 45 people become industrial sewing machine operators in the Lower Mainland.

Haida Gwaii and Nuxalk Nation will have greater access to nutritious food through grants to local food-security projects.

Residents of Surrey and White Rock will soon have greater access to more nutritious food through grants to local food security projects.

Kamloops and Lillooet area residents will have greater access to nutritious food through grants to local food security projects.

Two northern First Nations communities will have greater access to nutritious food through grants for Indigenous-led food security projects.

Community social-service agencies and families will benefit from provincial investments in research and a new grant program that will support long-term sustainability of the community social-services sector.