Our Impact

Story Archive

When you give to United Way of the Lower Mainland you make a profound difference in individual lives and the quality of life we all enjoy.

Seniors services: Generations bridged through improvised drama
At Camp Alexandra Hall in Crescent Beach retired people become kids, women become men, and middle-aged women become young mothers as they work on a new play.

Tags: White Rock, Seniors

Community family affair sustains a single mother and twin boys
The room that hosts the weekly Weekend Family Place program at United Way of the Lower Mainland supported Gordon Neighbourhood House comes alive every Saturday evening.

Tags: Vancouver

Building a brighter future for single mothers
When Teresa and her young son moved to Vancouver to start a new life, the challenges seemed overwhelming: as a single mother, she needed to find a school, housing, daycare and a job. “I felt isolated and alone.”

Tags: Vancouver, Stronger Communities

Darci learns to shine
Discovering she was pregnant was the moment Darci decided to change her life.

Tags: Vancouver

Capital Regional District food strategy finds fertile soil at United Way Public Policy Institute
Linda Geggie has planted the seeds for the development and adoption of a Food Strategy for the Capital Regional District on Vancouver Island.

Tags: Victoria, Stronger Communities

Seniors step in to a better life
Librada, or Lydia as she is known in Canada, sits smiling inside southeast Vancouver’s Collingwood Neighbourhood House on a rainy Monday morning.

Tags: Vancouver, Seniors

Burnaby Community Connections leader among first participants to complete sessions at United Way Public Policy Institute
Stephen D’Souza’s focus on helping his community to better address housing and homelessness issues just got sharper.

Tags: Burnaby, Stronger Communities

Community garden strengthens neighbourhood
Hope grows in a Vancouver community garden.

Tags: Vancouver, Stronger Communities

Chinese Seniors Outreach Project
Guo Yia Jiang lives in the heart of the Downtown Eastside. His room is small, cramped and is made more so by his walker, a bed, a small stove, a table and a couple of chairs.

Tags: Vancouver, Seniors

A storyteller’s life has enormous impact
Kathryn had it all – a university degree, a great job as an instructor with BCIT’s Broadcast and Media Communications Department, a beautiful son and daughter, and a husband.

Tags: Delta