Edmonton's United Way focuses on making poverty 'unignorable'

Too many children and families in the Edmonton area live in poverty, officials with the United Way of the Alberta Capital Region said Thursday as they launched a campaign to make the issue “unignorable.”
The charity’s 2018 campaign kicked off at the Shaw Conference Centre with an aim to build off of last year’s record-breaking $26.6 million in fundraising.
The campaign’s focus is on the more than 135,000 people living in poverty in the Edmonton area and the age