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.
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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Literacy Program at Queen Alexandra Elementary
David MacKinlay’s relationship with Queen Alexandra Elementary began through his commitment to the school’s “Fill the Gaps” program, for which he delivered bi-weekly dinner packs containing meals for 30 families....
Britannia Elementary: Emergency Pantry
Britannia Elementary School has asked The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-a-School program for a $2,500 grant to restock their emergency pantry. A pantry stocked with soup, non-perishable food items, basic...
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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 requested a donation of $5,000 from the Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-a-School program to expand their popular Cooking and Nutrition Program which often has a waitlist....
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Douglas Park: Breakfast and Lunch
As many as 63 children and parents arrive at Langley’s Douglas Park Elementary looking to be fed every morning, coming in as early as 7 a.m. It’s still dark when...
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Dover Bay Secondary: Breakfast Program
Dover Bay Secondary School in Nanaimo has asked The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-a-School program for $6,600 to help feed its neediest students. School officials report that Dover Bay has...
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Lynnmour Elementary: Lunch Program
Imagine considering lunch a “special treat,” and yet that’s what 15 children — — all from low-income families — who attend Lynnmour Elementary School in North Vancouver call the daily meal...
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Gladstone Secondary: Breakfast Club
Over 10 per cent of Gladstone Secondary School’s students are arriving at school every day not haven eaten breakfast. Food insecurity and lack of adequate nutrition are serious issues for...
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James Ardiel: Emergency Fund
Many students at James Ardiel face daily and complex challenges – lack of food, no transportation, no consistent home base and inability to cover extra costs. Help keep these kids...
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Langley Secondary: Meal program struggles to stay afloat, least 40 students arrive hungry every day
Each month, kitchen staff at Langley Secondary serve more than 2,000 breakfasts to students arriving at school hungry, many of them refugees, immigrants, or from local families struggling with poverty....
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Britannia Secondary: Outreach Program Emergency Funds
Britannia Alternative Outreach program supports approximately 40 students on the east side of Vancouver. This program serves a approximately 40 high-risk youth between the ages of 16-18 years old. The...
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Admiral Seymour Elementary: Grocery Cards
The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-a-School program began in 2011 when a concerned teacher at Admiral Seymour Elementary in Vancouver went public with the extreme difficulties many of her inner-city...
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Alexander Elementary: Hot Breakfast & Lunch Program
You’ve heard it many times: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And nowhere is that more evident than at Alexander elementary school in Duncan, where the school kitchen...
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CABE, Coquitlam Alternative Basic Education Secondary: Vulnerable Youth
Many of CABE’s (Coquitlam Alternate Basic Education) students experience personal, academic and financial challenges that inhibit their ability to attend and be successful in a traditional school. As the smallest...
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Florence Nightingale Elementary: Outdoor Education
In an effort to provide needy students the same camp opportunity as other classmates enjoy, Florence Nightingale Elementary School in Vancouver is asking for financial support so that its needier...
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Grandview Elementary: Learning by Exploring
Many students attending Grandview Elementary School in Vancouver come from low-income families where they do not have the same opportunities as other others in the district. The school is asking...
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Kateslem Youth Society: Breakfast Program
Children with full bellies have a much greater chance of succeeding in school, but for families with limited financial resources providing a sufficient breakfast to start the day isn’t always...
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KidSafe Project Society: Winter, Spring and Summer Programs
When schools close for spring, summer and winter breaks, the safety and support vulnerable children rely on from their schools and educators disappears, but these essential needs for a child’s...
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Lord Selkirk: Weekend Food Project
At Lord Selkirk there’s a growing number of students coming to school hungry on Monday morning. Family’s simply do not have enough resources to last through the weekend. $5,000 will...
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Saint James Music Academy: Daily Nutrition Program
The Saint James Music Academy, located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, provides classical music lessons to vulnerable children and youth attending nearby public schools in the inner city. Every child attending...
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Mount Pleasant Elementary: Weekend Food Program
Weekends and school breaks can be challenging times for low-income families when children are home full-time. Financial resources are needed to supplement a grocery budget to ensure that most basic...
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New Westminster Secondary: Outreach Program
New Westminster Secondary School needs $6,000 to provide a safe location in the school where high-risk students can make connections and build a relationship with an Outreach Youth Worker. These...
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Queen Alexandra Elementary School: Fill the Gaps
Queen Alexandra is asking for $30,000 from The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-a-School project to help “fill the gaps” for children and their families. The main focus is food and...
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Pleasant Valley Elementary: Lunch and Snack Program
Pleasant Valley Elementary School in Nanaimo is asking for an Adopt-a-School grant of $3,200 to provide healthy lunches and snacks to 15 children from low-income families. This project is designed...
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Pitt Meadows Secondary: Community Breakfast Program
Pitt Meadows Secondary School serves more than 4,000 meals a year to 125 students, and they can’t do it without your support. The school is situated in an area of...
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Surrey Attendance Matters: Holocaust survivor knows ‘what it’s like to be hungry’ helping feed Surrey students
There is a poignancy about Jack Kowarsky’s presence among the children being served breakfast in the cramped lunchroom of Surrey’s Bridgeview elementary. In May 1945, when he was the same...
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Prince Charles Elementary: Emergency Fund
Many students at Prince Charles Elementary face daily and complex challenges – lack of food, no transportation, no consistent home base, inability to cover extra costs like school supplies, extra-curricular...
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Rock City Elementary: Bistro
Rock City Elementary School in Nanaimo is located in an area populated by low-income and often transient families, which has seen the school experience a steady annual increase in the...
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Sir Charles Tupper Secondary: Homework Club Food Program
The Homework Club at Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School in Vancouver is an after-school program designed to provide homework assistance to struggling students, as well as offer them socialization opportunities...
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Vancouver Technical Secondary School: Breakfast Club
The breakfast program at Vancouver Technical Secondary School provides a free, no/low barrier, healthy breakfast for hungry students. The project began after students and staff learned that 25% of the...
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Strathcona Community Centre: After School Snack Program
Vancouver Sun readers, through their generous donations to Adopt-a-School, have provided ongoing support to Strathcona elementary and the Strathcona Community Centre Association — both located in Vancouver’s inner city —...
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Watson Elementary School: Breakfast, Lunch & Clothing
Many of the children attending Watson Elementary School in Chilliwack arrive for their day without eating breakfast, and without a proper lunch. Often, they have no lunch at all. To...
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Graham Bruce Elementary School: Breakfast Program
Graham Bruce Elementary School in Vancouver services a diverse population of students, many from low-income families that cannot afford to provide the nutritional breakfasts that children need to get the...
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Queen Alexandra: Fill the Gaps Program
Many families at Queen Alexandra Elementary are on income assistance, living in social housing, or in transitional housing fleeing abuse. Many are unemployed, new immigrants or working in low-paying jobs....
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Tupper Alternative Program
There’s nothing extravagant about what the alternative school program at Vancouver’s Sir Charles Tupper Secondary needs from the community. Food, clothing and bus tickets. Some students don’t have enough to...
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Maple Ridge Secondary: Food getting scarcer as donations dry up
At Maple Ridge Secondary, students who were going through an entire day without food had been able to get a nutritious lunch thanks to an Adopt-a-School donor who provided funding...
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CABE: Help Build Our New Kitchen
CABE, Coquitlam Alternative Basic Education secondary school, has applied to Adopt-a-School for $55,000. The school wants to renovate and expand an old kitchen as a teaching kitchen to teach the...
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John Henderson Elementary School | Vancouver
Many students entering Henderson Elementary School have low literacy levels and are just not ready for school as they have had no exposure to English language reading at home. Our...
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Guildford Park Secondary: Helping refugee children overcome trauma through art
For many refugee students attending Surrey schools, their bodies may be safely in a classroom, but their minds are still inhabiting the dangerous places they fled. Surrey likely has the largest population of refugee families...
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