Annual Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund campaign gets underway for another year
Funding has dried up to help needy and hungry students in Abbotsford
Help us help schools feed children
Struggle to feed, clothe students worsens for B.C. schools
Adopt-A-School is launching its 2025 campaign even as schools deal with more students in need Since The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund launched its Adopt-A-School program in 2011, more than $15.1 million in aid has been sent to hundreds of B.C. schools. It has provided millions of meals to impoverished students arriving at school hungry as […]
Please help us fill needy kids’ stomaches
Since AAS began in 2011, it has provided millions of free meals for children who would not otherwise have been fed. Over the past year, the Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School campaign sent $1,680,081 to 150 schools across B.C. to feed and clothe children arriving at school hungry or in need of adequate clothing. Since AAS began […]
Demand for charity and help growing every year
“I don’t want to deny any kid. Being the person on the front line who has to say no to their faces is heartbreaking.” Tammy Mojtahedpour has been the child and youth worker at Maple Ridge’s Glenwood Elementary since 2017. Back then, she was tasked with finding lunch for 20 children. Eight years later, she […]
A little help can make a huge difference
So many students live with hunger, financial insecurity or unstable housing conditions COURTENAY — Poor attendance is the most main reason many impoverished students fail to graduate, says Karma Taiji, co-principal of Glacier View Secondary, a Comox Valley alternate school with 190 students. Poverty can be demoralizing, and three-quarters of Glacier View students live with […]
Children’s needs come from all classes of families
For parents with little food money, a trip to the supermarket is mostly window-shopping — the aisles and fridges packed with food they would like to buy but can’t afford. Some years ago, when Vanessa Mani first sought help from The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School campaign, the line between impoverished families needing assistance and those able […]
Getting schoolkids access to lunch in a dignified way
At Nootka Elementary, a Vancouver school of almost 400 students, a number of whom come from outside its catchment area, roughly a quarter need help with food. Nootka Elementary is in the heart of the Vancouver’s Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood, an area with well-ordered and tidy streets. “We’re not in a place where people might typically think […]
Vancouver’s Eric Hamber secondary school needs help to restart breakfast program
Teacher says student coming to school without breakfast lethargic, lacked motivation to learn For two years, Matthew Vatta ran a-breakfast-on-a-shoestring program for his students at Vancouver’s Eric Hamber secondary. The teacher had nagging concerns that some of them were arriving at school hungry because they might not have food at home. They appeared at times […]