Adopt-A-School: Emergency food hubs feed hungry children
Emergency food hubs provide needy children with sustenance Emergency food hubs set up by the Vancouver school board have distributed thousands of meals this week to impoverished children and families including those affected by job loss due to the coronavirus. The hubs, which are under cover, are open for two hours each day in 53 […]
Adopt-A-School: Jacqui Cohen’s Foundation steps up to help C0VID-19 campaign
Jacqui Cohen’s voice faltered as she spoke of the need to help impoverished children and families in danger of going hungry now that the coronavirus has shut down schools. “I think I am going to cry,” said Cohen. “When I think of what is happening to children. It’s just heartbreaking and it’s why we are […]
Adopt-a-School: Help is on the way for impoverished families
Relief is on the way from The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School Covid-19 fund to teachers and administrators scrambling to provide food and help to impoverished families. On Thursday, $129,000 was sent out to cover the first batch of applications for help that will go to families in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Langley, Nanaimo and […]
Adopt-a-School: Sedin families to help hungry children in COVID-19 crisis
Among the first responders to The Vancouver Sun’s plea for money for impoverished children facing hunger now school meals are no longer available, were Henrik and Daniel Sedin and their wives Johanna and Marinette. The 39-year-old brothers and their wives have pledged $35,000 in matching funds to The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School COVID-19 appeal. This week […]
Adopt-a-School and COVID-19
With schools closed needy children are missing out on breakfast and lunch There isn’t an institution in the world — from the largest and most powerful to the smallest — left unshaken by the hammer blows of COVID-19. The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Board, with its six directors, qualifies as one of the smallest. Regardless […]
Adopt-a-School: There is a dire need for people to be helped
Raymond Louie may have risen from the mailroom to the boardroom in the last 30 years — dumping his overalls for a suit and tie — but he has kept his same social conscience. In his early working life, Louie was bundling newspapers in the noisy, viewless basement of the old Pacific Press building on […]
Adopt-A-School: Nanaimo-Ladysmith alternative education program gets a helping hand
Entrepreneur Barj Dhahan has a long history of helping students Vancouver businessman Barj Dhahan was moved when he recently read a Nanaimo principal’s comment that he regarded every child in his school district as his own. “What he was saying touched me. He is, of course, right. All the kids in this province are our […]
Adopt-A-School: Donations support Indigenous learning at Vancouver school
To be a non-Aboriginal principal of Vancouver’s only Indigenous-focus school — χpey̓ Elementary on Hastings Street near Victoria — Rose McKenzie is having to delve deep into her almost four decades of teaching wisdom. “This is a complex school,” she says leaving it at that. “Every child needs a chance to learn. But we have […]
Adopt-A-School: Surrey’s Wraparound program changes lives
“If it wasn’t for (Safe Schools) I feel like I’d still be getting into trouble. They have helped me calm down. I was getting into too many fights." — An at-risk youth who has been helped by the funds made available through the Adopt-A-School program. He looks like he’s just taking a break from the […]
Adopt-A-School: Thank you for the support and happy holidays
Christmas Eve is the most sentimental day of the year and the one that carries the most emotional freight. For months TV and radio have been consumed with convincing us what we should put under the tree tonight, the crescendo arriving this week. It is, of course, a symphony being played to an audience well-off […]