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Sedins ask others to join them in helping schoolchildren

When the doors to the Strathcona Community Centre on Keefer Street were opened one day last week for breakfast there was less interest in the boiled eggs, grilled cheese sandwiches...

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2025/2026

Families only able to survive with help from schools

They are also being helped by Surrey school district’s Wraparound team. This is an account of two single mothers, one living on social assistance, the other with a minimum-wage job,...

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2025/2026

Fort St. James secondary needs help for its vulnerable kids

Hunger among students is discernible on Monday mornings when some report they haven’t eaten in days. The northern B.C. community of Fort St. James, population 5,000, seems to be in...

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2025/2026

Providing support, safety and role models

Surrey’s Wraparound team is a gang violence prevention unit with the city’s safe schools department Fadi Toma was nine years old when the war in Iraq killed his father and...

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2025/2026

‘If you can do something, I would ask you to contribute’

Since 2011, the Adopt-A-School program’s largest single donor has been the Lohn Foundation, and its principal Jack Kowarsky. Ground zero for The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School program is Admiral Seymour Elementary...

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2025/2026

Hunger just one of the obstacles to overcome

As an alternative school, Fraserview Learning Centre’s students are among the most at-risk and vulnerable in the community. Many of the 150 students attending the Fraserview Learning Centre in Mission...

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2025/2026