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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
our children have multiple instances of trauma. Our 2017 EDI
(Early
Developmental Instrument) indicated that 51 per cent of
our students measured as highly vulnerable.
Feeding our students, healthy food and connecting with them over this process is crucial to supporting our students' overall school success.
Data from the previous three years has shown that our food needs have drastically increased, this year. We are providing breakfast to 40 students daily (double last year), and lunches to 30 students daily (triple last year) daily.
More than half our student population (250) accesses snacks provided by the school daily. This is a huge demand for us to meet.
We are utilizing all community known resources available at this time and we are falling short.
OUR 2019 CAMPAIGN IS CLOSED. PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE http://vansunkidsfund.ca FOR A LINK TO OUR CURRENT CAMPAIGN.
We know that when we start our annual Adopt-a-School campaign this fall, we will continue to hear — and report — stories of the plight of children living in our cities, and our neighbourhoods, many of whom go to school every day without having had a good breakfast, without warm clothing and the basic necessities they require to get the best start in life.
We know, too, that our readers will continue to help us improve their situation, to provide breakfast and lunch and jackets and shoes, to those who need it most.
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 close to $5 million to improve the lives of B.C.’s neediest school children.
The 2018 campaign alone resulted in a record $923,774 being granted to 129 public schools across the province to feed, clothe and provide for impoverished children and their families.
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, or food at weekends. We are grateful for that, and for the opportunity to make a difference.
“The plight of these children and their families is a major social issue. This newspaper’s editorial policy is that government must recognize there are thousands of children coming to school hungry every day and do something to alleviate it,” said Harold Munro, editor in chief of The Vancouver Sun and Province, and chair of The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund, under which Adopt-a-School operates.
“It should not be left solely in the hands of sympathetic teachers, volunteers and the charity of the public.” (In 2018) our readers responded magnificently. Their generosity has been overwhelming and everyone who helped us with a donation has my deepest gratitude.”
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