After years of thinking and dreaming about this project, and months of organizing all the pieces, it’s finally here! We started filming this morning! The filming began with Margaret Little, a professor of political studies and women’s studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, and a long-time anti-poverty activist. It was a perfect start. Margaret is passionate and animated, and gave a “big picture” story of some of the research she has done with low-income women, but also the changes in social policy in Canada that have had a devastating impact on the lives of people living on social assistance in this country. She and five other Kingston social justice advocates and activists will be part of an extra feature on the final version of the DVD.

And - we have now raised $950 of our $1000 goal on IndieGoGo, after ten day of fundraising! Hurray! Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed financially and everyone who has shown such enthusiasm and support for the project. I am very grateful.

Tomorrow, we will be filming two of the women participants, Debbie and Summer, who live side-by-side. We will conduct interviews with each of them and then film them and their children at one of their joint dinners. Later in the week, we will follow Debbie to the food bank in Kingston.

Stay tuned! thanks for your interest in the project!

Elaine