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Over the weekend, children in food insecure households often do not
eat properly, or at all. Working with over 100 schools in the BC Lower
Mainland, on the Sunshine Coast, on Vancouver Island, and in Stewart,
Backpack Buddies ensures these kids have their backpacks filled each
Friday with all the food they need for the weekend. With the COVID19
crisis, we have scaled up to help 3,000 kids with weekend meals
including 9 meals, snacks, fruit, and juice.
Backpack Buddies partners with schools, community groups, and
community support workers to get food directly into the hands of
children. School administrators, teachers, and social workers identify
those students who are going hungry and advise Backpack Buddies of how
many meal bags they need each week for the students in their schools.
Backpack Buddies coordinates with food suppliers to deliver
enough food to fill the backpacks with over 27,000 meals each week.
Then, we work with staff and volunteers in our warehouses and packing
sites in North Vancouver, Victoria, Port Coquitlam, and Port Hardy to
make up 3,000 meal bags. Staff members provide confidential pick-up of
meal bags for children in each school.
On average, each bag costs $15 to fill. From January to March,
our program budget will be $540,000.
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This project is one of many received by The Vancouver Sun Children's Fund for our 2020/21 Adopt-a-School campaign.
Since the day our first Adopt-a-School news story was published in the fall of 2011, generous Vancouver Sun readers have helped us raise more than $6 million to improve the lives of B.C.’s neediest school children.
The money you donate helps teachers and school staff who are dealing with children suffering from the effects of poverty and enables them to provide breakfast or lunch, food at weekends, other necessities (like warm clothing) and educational experiences. We are grateful for your support, and for the opportunity to make a difference.
(100 per cent of donated funds are used for grants. Admin & expenses are either supported by the Vancouver Sun newspaper or paid out of interest on investments.)
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