Schools in Need
These are applications from previous years.
The individual 2024 school requests will be
uploaded on our fundraising page in the fall.
Click on the Donate Now button below to be taken to the 2024 main campaign page
As they are added, individual school applications will be found at the bottom of this linked page.
Coquitlam: Help Buy Breakfast for Impoverished Students
The Kateslem Youth Society, a non-profit that works in the Coquitlam school district providing a variety of services, including helping to feed lunch to needy children, is seeking $10,000 to...
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Burnaby Central’s music therapy program at risk of playing last note
It’s a singalong jam session and dancing lesson, and for the seven special-needs students in Burnaby Central Secondary, the hour with music therapist Don Hardy is pure joy. “This is...
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Surrey: Attendance Matters Breakfast Program
Attendance Matters, a Surrey school board initiative targeted at meeting the most basic nutritional needs of nearly 1,000 students attending 23 of the city’s inner city schools, has been supported...
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KidSafe a welcome spot when school’s out; At-risk children will have a place to go with program helped by reader donations
KidSafe is applying to The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School campaign for $10,000 to support its winter break program. “If this program wasn’t here, a lot of kids would have their safety compromised, they...
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Frank Hurt Secondary: Company makes a difference for kids in ‘profound poverty’; Raven Hydronic Supply’s gift of $5,000 a year meets basic needs like food, clothes
Four years ago staff in a Surrey heating supply company were disturbed at discovering the extent at which impoverished students in their neighbourhood were suffering. “We were reading The Vancouver...
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Ecole North Oyster: Donations needed to feed hungry children
It’s easily the worst moment of the day when a hungry child comes to her for food and there is nothing to give. “It’s horrible,” says Christine De Vries, the secretary of Ecole...
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Strathcona Elementary kids need food, warm clothes
At Lord Strathcona Elementary School, many parents struggle to provide food, clothing, bus tickets and other necessities for their children. Strathcona needs $15,000 in emergency funds to meet their kids’...
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Vancouver Technical Secondary: Student-run breakfast program
The breakfast program at Vancouver Technical Secondary School in Vancouver is organized and staffed by student groups, who last year served up 13,000 breakfasts to students over the school year....
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Admiral Seymour: Emergencies and Experiences
It was Seymour teacher Carrie Gelson’s letter published in The Sun in the fall of 2011 that disclosed how inner-city teachers were being overwhelmed by children not only hungry and ill-dressed, but often in emotional and spiritual anguish. The public was disturbed by the letter and this newspaper felt compelled to act. ...
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Maple Ridge Secondary School
Help raise funds to provide a much-needed hot breakfast two days a week at Maple Ridge Secondary School, clothing and bus tickets for those in need; and emergency food for...
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Wrap Around Team: Surrey
In Surrey’s highways and byways they are known as the Wrap Around Team – 15 school liaison staff and their RCMP associates who help juveniles rated at extreme risk for...
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Mount Pleasant Elementary School | Vancouver
For some families at Mount Pleasant Elementary School, weekends, with no school meal programs, are especially hungry times. Help us to change that....
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Surrey School Breakfast Programs
The Surrey school board needs $100,000 to feed 854 vulnerable students breakfast in 22 schools. These students would otherwise go hungry and the Attendance Matters Program is designed to encourage...
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Queen Alexandra Elementary | Vancouver
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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Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School | Vancouver
Young mothers at Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School need help and encouragement to get to classes. Moral encouragement is one thing, providing diapers and baby wipes, formula, or modest gift...
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Langley Secondary School
A number of students at Langley Secondary School live too far away to walk and they can’t afford the bus fare to get to school. The school is seeking $1,500...
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John Norquay Elementary School | Vancouver
Support our Students, SOS, is a program that supplies non-perishable foods and grocery gift cards to families that find themselves in financial hardship. Our goal is to raise $3,000 to...
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Edmonds Community School | Burnaby
Students who start the day on an empty stomach can’t learn. For many children at Edmonds Community School , whose families are struggling, our $10,000 fundraising goal will mean the...
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CABE Secondary School | Coquitlam
CABE, which stands for Coquitlam Alternate Basic Education is a 200-student public secondary school servicing the Tri-Cities, designed for students experiencing social and behavioural issues, and its student body includes...
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Watson Elementary | Chilliwack
Many students at Watson Elementary have suffered trauma in their young lives, prompting times of uncontrollable outbursts that can hurt themselves and others....
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Departure Bay Elementary Eco School | Nanaimo
The school’s kindergarten program includes nature walks to forest and beach areas and students need backpacks. However, some parents are unable to afford backpacks which makes it difficult for them...
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