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Shelley Fralic: An advocate for children in need
There are thousands of children in this province who have been fed, clothed and cherished because of the concern and compassion of Shelley Fralic, one of the instigators of the...
2020/2021
Adopt-A-School: $1.2 million in grants given out to schools and organizations
“We have never had so many requests for help before. It is a measure of our readers’ concern and generosity that we have been able to meet these requests.” —...
2020/2021
Adopt-a-School: A special thanks to Vancouver Sun readers
There was the 103-year-old woman who donated to the 2020 Adopt-a-School fundraising campaign not once, but twice. The reason? She knew the children needed help, and wanted to make sure...
2020/2021
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
Schools in Need
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2020 Spectrum: Christmas Hampers
Christmas Hampers $3,000 The project aims to provide healthy food during the holiday season for 30 low-income families in our school. These families will be carefully chosen by the staff...
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 Guildford Park Secondary: Emergency Fund and Food Program
Emergency Fund and Food Program $5,000 Guildford Park Secondary is a designated high needs inner city schools in Surrey. With an enrolment of more than 1350 students in grades 8-12,...
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