Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society
Adopt-a-School
In the fall of 2011, the school year had barely begun at Admiral
Seymour elementary when teacher Carrie Gelson, frustrated after a
difficult day at work, wrote an impassioned open letter to Vancouver
residents asking whether anyone cared that her inner-city students
were coming to school with empty tummies and holes in their shoes. And
then something wonderful happened. On the day that The Vancouver Sun
published her letter, Gelson arrived at the East Vancouver school to
discover that, “People had already dropped off thousands of dollars in
cash . . . they literally drove into work that morning bringing donations.”
Clearly, Gelson had revealed a pressing need in our communities and, in keeping with our paper’s long-vested philanthropic commitments, we not only told her story from a journalistic perspective, but asked our readers — through our Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund charity — to help her students and others. And come through our generous readers did.
A decade later, The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund’s Adopt-a-School project has raised more than $7.5 million in donations both large and small, from individuals and from companies alike, and not just money but clothing, school equipment and field trips.
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Finished November 29, 2019
Finished November 29, 2019