Adopt-A-School: Vancouver executive tees off on childhood hunger
‘I want to issue a challenge to (golfers) to put the money they would have spent on golfing holidays to help these children,’ says Renate Mueller This past summer, Renate Mueller was supposed to be golfing in Spain for three weeks. Today she should have been teeing off in Thailand. But those plans were made before […]
Adopt-A-School: School tries to help families through problem after problem
The usual range of stresses on low-income families with children at Royal Heights elementary has been exacerbated by the pandemic Royal Heights Elementary is one of the smallest schools in the Surrey school district but the social challenges facing its 211 students are the toughest that principal Ruth Mrak has seen. “I’ve been in six […]
Shelley Fralic: Ten years of feeding hungry children, thanks to Vancouver Sun readers
Opinion: Adopt-a-School is now the No. 1 provider of food to public schoolchildren in B.C. You know the child poverty statistics, because we write about them frequently in this newspaper. You know the need is greater than ever, that the grey pall of COVID-19 has only brought more hardship to people already struggling to make […]
Adopt-A-School: COVID adding to pressures of impoverished children and families
For many middle-class professionals, it is fair to say that poverty — as a condition of life — is something they can only imagine. Not having enough money to feed your children, food bank lineups, distressed housing, lack of adequate clothing — it requires a flight of fancy to put themselves into those situations. Not […]
Adopt-a-School: Pandemic created a need for a breakfast and lunch program at Park Avenue Elementary
Staff at Park Avenue Elementary have been providing breakfast and a bagged lunch for children using food hampers being sent to the school and funds from the school district’s foundation. But that is all running out and without an injection of cash to buy food it can’t continue. NANAIMO — In the world that existed […]
Adopt-a-School: 2020 Campaign Launch
Adopt-A-School: B.C.’s children need us more than ever as almost $1 million has been requested by 102 schools We need you again. We face the coming months with some trepidation. Nothing is normal, the life we expected for ourselves has been changed beyond belief. Our faith is now placed in your generosity and concern to […]
Adopt-A-School: Desperate families in Cariboo-Chilcotin receiving food from Children’s Fund
WILLIAMS LAKE — The COVID-19 pandemic has left many teachers across the province scrambling to feed impoverished children going hungry now that school meals aren’t available, but the challenges facing principal Calvin Dubray here are on another scale. He is trying to feed students scattered across an area the size of New Brunswick. The distances between […]
Adopt-A-School: Emergency fund helping families through COVID-19 crisis
The Trial Lawyers Association of B.C. has thrown its support behind the Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund campaign to feed impoverished children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We know the Children’s Fund through its Adopt-A-School campaign has the ability to reach thousands of children who are hungry and in need, and we want to help, […]
Adopt-a-School: Rocky Mountain Chocolate
Rocky Mountain Chocolate steps up at a crucial time Surrey families receiving food aid from the school district received an unexpected treat when $30,000 worth of chocolates — courtesy of Rocky Mountain Chocolate owner Tammi Kerzner — were distributed with food parcels this weekend. “I just want to give a huge thanks to Tammi for […]
Adopt-A-School: KidSafe needs $180,000 to care for at-risk kids during COVID19 crisis
If normal time now seems like a dream, pandemic time is a living nightmare for Quincey Kirscher. As the executive director of KidSafe Project Society she has the fate of some of the most vulnerable children in Vancouver in her hands and she’s frightened. “I’m worried sick about them,” she said. The pandemic lockdown has […]