Since 2011 The Sun’s Adopt-A-School campaign has distributed $4,720,628 to hundreds of B.C. schools.
This year’s Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School campaign resulted in a record $923,774 being sent to 129 schools across the province to feed, clothe and provide for impoverished children and their families.The money helps teachers and school staff who are dealing with children suffering from the effects of poverty and enables them to provide breakfast or lunch or food at weekends.“This year our readers have responded magnificently.
Of the 36 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — an association of the world’s most economically advanced nations — only Canada doesn’t have a national program to feed hungry schoolchildren. Former provincial cabinet minister Carole Taylor, another long time supporter who donated $60,000 this year, said hunger “undermines everything we need to do to help our children grow and learn and prosper.”
More than a fifth of B.C. children live in poverty and many schools bear the brunt of this when children arrive unfed in the morning or without proper clothing and footwear for the weather.
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