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 […]
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 […]