Vancouver Canadians

Breakfast program gives kids food for thought

Posted from Vancouver Sun - News / Vanc... 102 days ago
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In September, the Surrey school district took the hesitant step of providing a breakfast — of sorts — to almost 600 hungry children in eight inner-city schools where the poverty rate in some neighbourhoods is an astonishing 80 per cent. The hesitation was due to a lack of money to provide proper breakfasts and concern that if the program was started, there wouldn’t be corporate sponsors to keep it going. (original story)