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Our Purpose

At the upper left, a toolbox with banners reading “Every tool shapes the task. PovNet & Building Online Communities. By Kara Sievewright.” At the lower right, a person is holding up an unplugged electrical cord that is attached to a computer, ge…

To create and maintain electronic communication networks among poverty law advocates and community workers which are useful, useable, confidential and cost efficient and which improve their ability to assist clients with administrative law problems.

Three people are illustrated, all of them with a keyboard on their lap and a phone at their ear. All of the phone and keyboard cords are connected! Text banners read “Since then we have looked to various tools to network & connect advocates in r…

To provide public access to current legal information about welfare, housing, employment, workers' rights and other poverty law subjects and links to anti-poverty issues, organizations and resources provincially.

In the upper left panel there is an illustration of Ursula Franklin. Text bubbles read “But as Ursula Franklin says, ‘Every tool shapes the task.’ So be mindful of how the tool shapes the task. And that you only find this out when you really learn a…

To assist people who are physically, mentally, socially, economically or otherwise marginalized and those who represent them in anti-poverty work to address access to justice issues through an integration of offline and online technology and resources.