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Academy feeds kids with music and, it hopes, with food
School in the Downtown Eastside offers free lessons in an effort to bring music to city’s poorest children It’s a Thursday afternoon and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is about to show...
2022/2023
Nanaimo school seeks funds to build safe room for kids
11 years after a teacher’s plea led to the creation of Adopt-A-School by the Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Society, the need to greater then ever Eleven years ago, it was...
2022/2023
Nanaimo’s Arrow program fills a huge void for troubled kids
“We are trying to create a safe space here. Many of these kids have had a rough start (in life) and mainstream school wasn’t working. We consider Arrow to be...
2022/2023
Chilliwack school needs help addressing poverty
“A lot of money is allocated to support programs here but there are a few … loopholes where some families aren’t receiving proper food or clothing and we are unable...
2022/2023
Feeding 50 students breakfast on $40 a week an impossible task
“We estimate close to 200 (children) need some form of assistance from the school, whether food or school supplies.” — Springwood Elementary Child and Youth Care worker Dannika McAllister PARKSVILLE...
2022/2023
Staff struggle to feed students every day at Suwa’lkh Connections
“It worked well for some time but things have got significantly worse. We have a significant increase in (students’) needs this year and less to no donated food coming in.”...
2022/2023
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2022 Adopt-a-School
The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund has been running our Adopt-a-School campaign for more than a decade now. Since our first Adopt-a-School campaign ran in 2011 we have disbursed more than $9 million to schools and community organizations in British Columbia....
Literacy Program at Queen Alexandra Elementary
David MacKinlay’s relationship with Queen Alexandra Elementary began through his commitment to the school’s “Fill the Gaps” program, for which he delivered bi-weekly dinner packs containing meals for 30 families....
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