Access to resources

Examples of how access to resources limit or enable access to childcare for people of different genders

• Women with older male children find it challenging to find emergency housing
• 47% of children in foster care in Surrey are Indigenous, which is 5.5% of all Indigenous children in the city
• 37% of Indigenous children in Surrey are impoverished (1,610 children)
• Waaban Housing provides free childcare and activities for Indigenous mothers and children
• Surrey is one of the most unaffordable places in Canada for childcare
• Surrey mom struggles to find childcare for her son with autism
• Not enough childcare space for 9 out of 10 children in Surrey’s childcare facilities