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We are deeply shocked and saddened by the tragic attack at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and in the community. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families, friends, and the entire community of Tumbler Ridge.
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We are grateful for all the kindness we witnessed in 2025.
We hope the coming year will be even brighter, reaching more children with gifts of love, compassion, and support❤️
Happy New Year!
When the doors to the Strathcona Community Centre on Keefer Street were opened one day last week for breakfast there was less interest in the boiled eggs, grilled cheese sandwiches and four types of cereal on offer than in the two former Vancouver Canucks on distribution duty.
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Two single mothers, one living on social assistance, the other with a minimum-wage job. Both of them can’t survive paying rent and feeding themselves and their children without help.
Read their stories in the latest article ⤵️
Hunger among students is discernible on Monday mornings when some report they haven’t eaten in days.
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Fadi Toma was nine when the war in Iraq killed his father and forced his family to flee as refugees, and by 14, living in North Surrey, he was vulnerable to gang recruitment. Intervention from Surrey’s Wraparound team ultimately changed the course of his life and future.
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Since 2011, the Adopt-A-School program’s largest single donor has been the Lohn Foundation. The foundation’s principal, Jack Kowarsky, has directed almost $1 million over the years.
Recently, he met with Admiral Seymour principal Aaron Singh at the school.
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Many of the 150 students attending the Fraserview Learning Centre in Mission have more than enough problems without adding hunger or their lack of appropriate clothing and other basic necessities.
Read more in the new story ⬇️
‘We understand that (some) students often leave school for the day wondering when their next meal will be’
As principal of Prince George Secondary, Randy Halpape is aware that some of his families are struggling to feed themselves.
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Many Connex Secondary students are essentially homeless, living in unsafe conditions, and there is a risk of being preyed upon by predators.
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Government help is gone as the $20 million affordability fund that was available to schools across the province was cancelled just before school began in September.
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vansunkidsfund.ca/stories/2025kbwoodward/
David Delorme is a district principal for Vancouver’s Indigenous students. He worries that the education for some of his students is being held back by a lack of food, clothing and basic necessities.
“You go to a store and it’s a $100 trip, and you don’t really leave with a lot of food”
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6 years ago, former CTV journalist and news anchor Renu Bakshi went to see for herself how The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund was helping a school in Nanaimo.
What she found inspired her to become an advocate for the children’s fund and its work feeding and caring for children.
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At Surrey’s Guildford Park Secondary, which has a high immigrant and refugee population in its catchment area, many families struggle with their new life in Canada and turn to the school for help.
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The B.C. government’s decision to abandon its $20-million student and family affordability fund is having a devastating effect on impoverished students who no longer can expect help from the program when they’re without food at home or in need of other necessities.
Read the full story here ⤵️
Manjit Nahal, principal of W.E.Kinvig Elementary in Surrey, has 432 students under her care.
She says there’s a list of 50 families struggling to find sufficient food to feed themselves. Increasing numbers of parents seek help from their child’s school.
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🌟Today the Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund launches its 14th Adopt-A-School campaign to help schools deal with the effects poverty and privation are having on an estimated 20% of our children.
🙌 Support our campaign here: fundrazr.com/adoptaschool2025
ℹ️ Details on our website: vansunkidsfund.ca
He decided to make a difference through the continuous support of thousands of children.
“Children can’t be left hungry at school or without adequate clothes. It’s just not right,” he says.
We express our endless gratitude to Jack Kowarsky and the Lohn Foundation! Thank you!
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He knows what it’s like to be hungry and deprived because of his own background as a refugee child and Holocaust survivor.
Now 85 y.o., he lived in poverty when his family first arrived, but he went on to build a successful career as a lawyer.
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🌟 Donor Spotlight 🌟
Jack Kowarsky is a Vancouver lawyer who has donated $650,000+ to our Adopt-A-School program since 2014 on behalf of the Lohn Foundation.
He says it’s “very concerning to see families not having enough to eat or being unable to provide proper clothing for their children.”
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“For a company like ours, we think it’s important to help the communities we work in. I would encourage other companies to consider helping, too”.
We are so grateful to PCI Developments for their generosity. Thank you!
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Last year, the company donated $79,000 to help feed and clothe children in Vancouver, and then gave an additional $100,000 to help five Surrey Schools.
Tim Grant, president of PCI Developments, said the shock of learning children were going to school hungry led them to support "Adopt-A-School"
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🌟 Donor Spotlight 🌟
PCI Developments is a Vancouver-based real estate developer and investor, focused on sustainability and community building. The company has been constructing office and residential towers across the Lower Mainland for 40 years, and supporting us since 2014.
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And when he finally sat down, he sent $11,260 to us to help kids in need.
This is on top of nearly $200,000 he has personally donated through various fundraising efforts over the years.
David’s dedication and generosity inspire us all. Thank you!
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Last year, he distributed thousands of art prints to over 100 community organizations and schools, giving them a way to fundraise for feeding hungry children.
On top of that, he also spent four long days selling prints to tourists and visitors out of the old carving shed on Granville Island.
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🌟 Donor Spotlight 🌟
David McCann, the general manager of Creekhouse Industries on Granville Island, is a champion donor and supporter of our cause.
At 78 years old, and despite his doctor’s advice to take it easy, David has gone above and beyond to help us raise funds for children in need.
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“I have to be really mindful now how I am to support these kids because I can’t say ‘don’t worry that’s a stress I can take away’ and then not be able to do it.”
But she has been trying anyway — using her own money.
Read more on our website⤵️
vansunkidsfund.ca/stories/abbo...
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“I just don’t understand why they have cut funding when the needs are way higher than they’ve ever been,” said Hayley Davey, a youth and family worker in Abbotsford’s Yale secondary school.
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📣 B.C.’s decision to halt its $20-million student and family affordability fund is having a devastating effect on impoverished students who no longer can expect help from the fund when they are without food or in need of clothes.
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💬 “Many of the programs are just getting off the ground. It’s important not to judge the outcomes until we have a clearer sense of what they will like at full-scale,” said Black.
Check out our latest article for more details ⤵️
vansunkidsfund.ca/stories/help...
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