On Sunday community groups on the Downtown Eastside held the Poverty Olympics. The purpose was to focus attention on homelessness and the deplorable state of much of the available accommodation in the neighbourhood. It is a constant struggle to get sufficient government support to address the issues but apparently it's no problem for various levels of government to come up with billions of dollars for a multitude of projects connected to the 2010 Winter Olympics.
I went along to watch the fun and hear The Carnival Band. Naturally one aim of the event was to draw media attention. It did.
I use a dinky Panasonic camera that I carry on my belt so I was sort of intimidated by so many honking big cameras and lenses.
Sorry for posting so many pics. I liked them equally well.
Last one. A few more shots from the event tomorrow and then we'll move on. To what, I really don't know.
