The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened existing inequalities in Canada. It has hit Indigenous, Black and other racialized communities the hardest across Canada, including in Halton Region. The pandemic has disproportionally impacted them with grave socio-economic implications.

 

Against this backdrop, the Halton Equity and Diversity Roundtable (HEDR), with funding from the United Way Halton & Hamilton (UWH&H) and Halton Region, has embarked on the Social Inclusion Project.

 

The project’s goal is to provide Halton Region’s Indigenous, Black and other racialized residents with the opportunity to discuss challenges they experienced before and as a result of the pandemic by engaging them in community consultations, surveys and a resident-led working group.