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Adopt-A-School: Resilience in children should never be confused with tragedy
By recognizing “resilience” as anything other than a tragedy in the life of an impoverished child — and to speak of it as something vaguely admirable — is to ignore...
2020/2021
Adopt-A-School: Hunger, poverty not limited to just inner-city schools
Although the school boundary stretches all the way north to within 40 kilometres of Egmont and south down the bucolic highway to Sechelt, Pender Harbour Elementary-Secondary school has just 75...
2020/2021
Adopt-A-School: 16-year-old homeless girl survives with the help of Safe Schools team
“I became homeless in the summer of 2019. But in my heart I knew I’d never had a home, I never had stability.” — 16-year-old homeless girl The Christmas Eve...
2020/2021
Adopt-a-School: Last push before Christmas
We are pleased — and very grateful — to report that we have raised $902,246 as of 5pm, Wednesday, December 23, 2020. When we kicked off our 10th annual Adopt-a-School...
2020/2021
Adopt-A-School: Britannia Secondary wants to dismantle barriers
“If food is not a factor, and (adequate) clothing is not a problem, students can focus on what matters most which is their education and development.” — Britannia Secondary School...
2020/2021
Donations Reach $750,000 for Adopt-a-School’s 2020 campaign
When we kicked off our 10th annual Adopt-a-School fundraising campaign in November, we were hopeful that Vancouver Sun readers would once again open their hearts — and their wallets —...
2020/2021
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2020 Aries Program VASS: Aries Program
VASS: Aries Program $3,900 We would like to purchase rain jackets and boots for the students as we are now doing P.E. and gardening outside and many of our youth...
2021 Adopt-a-School
The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund has been running our Adopt-a-School campaign for a decade now. This last year has been a challenging one, and we know that the need for...
2020 King George Secondary: Equity of Access – Technology
Equity of Access – Technology $20,000 New this year, RISE Blocks – providing support for our most vulnerable learners. We need 16 laptops and a charging cart to make the...
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