A group devoted to ending poverty in the community took a step to increasing awareness about the problem by raising its flag at the Chatham-Kent Civic Centre.
Prosperity Round Table chair Darrin Canniff says marking Poverty Awareness Week is important.
"The key today is awareness if people aren't aware what is going on they can't do anything about it," he says, adding a lot of new ideas are under consideration. "To take what we are doing now and look at it a little differently, how can we get people off of food banks on a permanent basis?"
The Prosperity Round Table estimates that almost 18 % of adults and 28 % of children in Chatham-Kent live in poverty.