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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

The only solution is to send food home with students

‘We understand that (some) students often leave school for the day wondering when their next meal will be’ As principal of Prince George Secondary, with its 1,500 students drawn from...

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2025/2026