Guelph (ON) February 15, 2012 – Your Voice is important to rural Ontario! This truth is the basis for the participant driven survey distributed to over 10,000 rural residents in Ontario. The Rural Voices Network (RVN) launched the ‘Let Your Voice Be Heard’ Survey today to examine what enables rural citizens to participate in the common life of their community, and to identify barriers to rural civic engagement.
“Rural community members are the grassroots of rural Ontario. Their voice, knowledge and experiences are the real testimony in trying to understand how to boost rural civic engagement. The importance of factoring in the rural voice, and grassroots understanding to the issues and needs of rural citizens is key to developing collaborative solutions,” says Lynn Ruigrok, Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario (FWIO) Executive Director.
The RVN Survey was developed through dialogue with over 140 rural participants in the 7 RVN Public Forums that happened across Ontario, from November 2011 to January 2012. The survey is available online at www.ruralvoicesnetwork.ca Hard-copy surveys will be mailed within a week, across the Province through Women’s Institute (WI) Branches. You can search for a local WI Branch near you at www.fwio.on.ca or those rural citizens that would prefer to receive a paper copy of the survey can call, or email the FWIO Provincial Office at 519-836-3078 or info@ruralvoicesnetwork.ca Continue reading
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