Schools in Need
These are applications from previous years.
The individual 2024 school requests will be
uploaded on our fundraising page in the fall.
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As they are added, individual school applications will be found at the bottom of this linked page.
2020 Adopt-a-School
The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund starts our 10th annual Adopt-a-School campaign this fall knowing that there are more heartbreaking stories out there of public school children living without basics such as food, clothing and security. We also know that Vancouver Sun readers — who since 1981 have supported the fund’s charitable work and the programs that we provide to help needy children — will continue to help us improve this situation. We are grateful for that, and for the opportunity to make a difference. Which is why we are once again asking for your support....
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χpey̓ Elementary: Enhanced Services
χpey̓ is the only Indigenous Choice school for the Vancouver School District. Families and caregivers send their children to be immersed and learn via aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and...
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Surrey: Safe Schools
The Surrey School District has asked The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund’s Adopt-a-School project for a $10,000 grant for emergency funds for 22 schools and more than 600 at-risk youth supported...
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Tupper Community: Cooking and Nutrition
Tupper Community Schools has asked for $6,000 from the Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-a-School program to expand their popular Cooking and Nutrition Program, which often has a waitlist. Project background:...
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Grandview Elementary: Learning by Exploring
The purpose of this grant is to support the social emotional growth of the Grandview students. Unfortunately, our students do not have the same opportunities as other students in this...
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Surrey: Attendance Matters Breakfast Program
Attendance Matters is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Adopt-a-School program for $100,000 to run a breakfast program providing identified at risk students with a healthy meal to start the day....
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Tupper Nova: Emergency Funds for our Youth
Tupper Nova is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $2,000 to provide food, clothing and basic necessities to students who have complex issues and needs....
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Uplands Park Elementary: Food Program
Uplands Park Elementary School is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $2,000 to provide daily breakfasts and healthy lunches to a number of students....
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Saint James Music Academy: Daily Nutrition Program
Saint James Music Academy is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $13,000 to feed every child every day with a healthy and nutritious meal, and to also teach better understanding of nutrition and nutritional habits. ...
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Strathcona Elementary: Inner City Support
Strathcona Elementary is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $15,000 to provide Emergency funds (to support food security, health, clothing, direct student needs) & Enhancement Activities (to provide learning experiences that go beyond regular classroom activities and enhance the learning experience for our students)....
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Old Yale Road: Emergency Food
Old Yale Road Elementary is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $10,000 to provide emergency non-perishable food items to those most in need to get them through the weekend and school breaks....
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Spectrum Alternative: Christmas Hampers
Spectrum Alternative is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $2,000 to provide healthy food during the holiday season for 10 low-income families....
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Spectrum Alternative: Breakfasts
Spectrum Alternative is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $2,820 to provide a warm breakfast for students whose families are unable to provide it....
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Tupper Alternative Program
The alternative school program at Vancouver’s Sir Charles Tupper Secondary is asking The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-A-School campaign for $15,000 to support low income teens from the Downtown East Side with food, clothing, supplies, transportation and field trip costs. ...
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ELL Welcome Centre: Expressive Arts
ELL Welcome Centre is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $6,000 to provide an arts therapy program for youth who may be struggling with trauma, post traumatic stress disorder, homesickness and/or connecting with their new life in Canada....
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Lord Selkirk: Equity and Excellence in Education
Lord Selkirk Elementary is asking The Vancouver Sun Adopt-a-School project for a total of $15,000 split over two areas: Emergency Funds ($6,500) for items such as: lunch program, clothing, bus tickets, etc. and Enhancement Opportunities ($8,500) for things such as travel costs and school supplies....
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McGowan Park: Breakfast Smile
McGowan Park Elementary School is asking for $5,000 for breakfast food and essential clothing to put smiles on faces of children in need....
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Greater Heights Learning Academy: Lunches
Greater Heights is asking The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-a-School program for $5,000 so they can serve a hot lunch to students arriving at school hungry and with little or no food to last the day....
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Bridgeview Elementary: Emergency Fund
Many students at Bridgeview Elementary face daily and complex challenges. $2,000 for an Emergency Fund will cover the costs of food, clothes, transportation, school supplies and extracurricular costs when there is no other way to provide these items....
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ELL Welcome Centre: Bridge Program Community Tours
ELL Welcome Centre is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $6,900 to provide cultural experiences and learning opportunities for refugees, to help students acclimatize to their new environment while learning and building connections with others....
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Holly Elementary: Emergency Food
Holly Elementary is asking The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund for $3,500 to purchase grocery store gift certificates for families in need....
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Strathcona Community Centre: Food Program
The Strathcona Community Centre is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $39,000 to support healthy development by providing nutritious snacks....
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RC Palmer: The Palmer Lunchbox
The purpose of Palmer’s Lunchbox is to provide cost-free healthy lunches for financially vulnerable Palmer students who may not be able to consistently provide themselves with their own lunch. Our...
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Learning Alternatives/Vast Centre: Breakfast and warm clothing needed
This project would allow us to feed our students with a small breakfast each morning that they enter our building. Since the majority of our students and their families are...
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Georgia Community School: Food Programs
Teachers at Georgia Ave. identify hunger as the number one barrier to students being ready to learn. Our school is located in a highly vulnerable area of Nanaimo. Many of...
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Kateslem Youth at Coquitlam River Elementary: Breakfast Program
We have children coming to school hungry and we have no breakfast program to help them. We need your help raising $10,000 to run our breakfast program for a year....
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North Delta Secondary: Breakfast & Lunch Club
North Delta Secondary is asking The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for $12,000 to provide healthy, nutritious breakfast and lunch for these vulnerable children....
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Canyon-Lister Elementary: Breakfast, lunch, winter clothing
Help this Kootenay school raise money to feed and clothe children in need....
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Queneesh Elementary: Community Connections
The Community Connections program at Queneesh Elementary in Courtenay is designed to provide engagement opportunities for students and their families through game nights, family picnics and geo-caching events. The school...
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Norgate Community Elementary – X’wemelch’stn: Living with & from the land
Many youth in this North Vancouver community honour the sound of the drum beat, and some students of aboriginal ancestry do not have financial means to even build their own...
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χpey̓ Elementary: Enhanced Services
χpey̓ is the only Indigenous Choice school for the Vancouver School District. Families and caregivers send their children to be immersed and learn via aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and...
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Windebank Elementary: Native Games Program
Windebank Elementary School in Mission has applied for a $3,500 grant from The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-a-School program for an All Aboriginal Healing and Native Games Program. With a goal...
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Edmonds Community: Healthy Families
Edmonds Community School is unique to Burnaby. Family Income in the neighbourhood is relatively low compared to other parts of the city. Many of the families here are new comers...
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Brechin Elementary: Food Program
Brechin Elementary School, situated in central Nanaimo in an area of economically challenged families, has asked The Vancouver Sun's Adopt-a-School program for $5,000 to support the school's food program and $1,000 for cold weather clothing....
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Fairview Community: Food Program
It’s no secret that school children require nutritious food to get a good start in life, and to help support engagement and learning in the classroom. Fairview Community Schools in...
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John Oliver: Upcycling
“J & 0 Upcycling”, a universally accessible free thrift shop operated by John Oliver Secondary School in south Vancouver, creates a resource for economically poor youth to obtain clothing and...
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Henderson: Kindergarten Ready
Henderson Elementary School in Vancouver has asked The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-a-School program for $10,000 to continue the important work of its Getting Ready for Kindergarten program. Many students attending...
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Queen Elizabeth Secondary: Emergency Fund
Many students at Surrey’s Queen Elizabeth Secondary School face daily and complex challenges — lack of food, no transportation, no consistent home base, inability to cover extra costs like school supplies,...
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