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		<title>The Vancouver Sun&#8217;s Child Poverty Forum hoping for answers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As applications flooded in earlier this year for funding from The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School campaign, a disturbing picture emerged of child poverty. Amid the applications for iPads, and new playgrounds, and schemes to hire artists or musicians to perform in schools, were requests for breakfast and other food programs and for money to help families ]]></description>
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		<title>Generous donations support kids in need #vansunkids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerry Bellett On Tuesday morning, the doors of Captain James Cook Elementary will be opened early by principal Dan Knibbs who will be there to serve the school’s first breakfast — an inaugural event and the culmination of Knibbs’ desire to at least do this much to alleviate hunger in his school. “I’ve wanted ]]></description>
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		<title>From a single story comes profound change #vansunkids</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shelley Fralic The one thing a newspaper reporter learns within minutes on the job, and even more so after years in the trenches, is that the power of the press can turn a single story into a profound agent of change. In the fall of 2011, The Vancouver Sun learned about the plight of ]]></description>
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		<title>Strathcona&#8217;s backpack program gets a $30,000 boost #vansunkidsfund</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerry Bellett The uninitiated arriving at Strathcona Community Centre on Thursdays would wonder if they had entered the right building, the place being awash in food, knapsacks, and volunteers sorting and packing fruit and vegetables. Community centres host a variety of programs, including those that make you sweat. But none &#8211; except here at ]]></description>
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		<title>Burnaby school tries to beat odds to feed kids  #vansunkids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerry Bellett It doesn&#8217;t take long for Marilyn Kwok&#8217;s voice to falter when she describes just how hopeless it feels, wanting to feed 40 children breakfast with resources that can only manage to feed about five. Simple arithmetic dictates that 35 must go hungry. It&#8217;s mathematics colliding with compassion and it brings Kwok &#8211; ]]></description>
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		<title>Sun readers put Surrey family back on its feet after fire #vansunkids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerry Bellett On Tuesday, the following email arrived at The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-a-School website from Susan McCuaig, principal of Betty Huff elementary, a school located in Surrey’s troubled north end. “ &#8230; We have many vulnerable families in our community and one endured a fire in their apartment Monday and they have no insurance. ]]></description>
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		<title>Adopt-a-School: Vancouver power couple pitches in to help school  #vansunkids</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerry Bellett Captain James Cook Elementary principal Dan Knibbs was stunned when he heard that his longed-for program to serve breakfast to hungry children will receive $60,000 from Carole Taylor and her husband Art Phillips. “It’s fantastic. It’s such a huge commitment on their part. I just can’t say what it will mean to ]]></description>
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		<title>Donation turns holiday hardship into joy for Strathcona children #vansunkids</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerry Bellett and Gillian Shaw Most kids look forward to their Christmas school break. But for some of Vancouver’s most impoverished children, it’s not a time of joy and laughter but a time of anxiety and hunger, as the holidays stretch out with no prospect of a hot lunch at school or a breakfast ]]></description>
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		<title>Bridging the gap: Students learn how little it takes to make a difference  #vansunkids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Daphne Bramham Last fall, Julie Takahashi was not only inspired to do something for the children at Admiral Seymour elementary school, she inspired a whole school to help. What began as a one-time fundraising event has evolved into something more and because of it, the kids at West Vancouver’s Sentinel high school are learning ]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver&#8217;s Sidoo family steps in to ensure Selkirk Annex gets its playground #vansunkids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerry Bellett St. George&#8217;s student Jordan Sidoo sold $4,000 worth of pen sets over the last two weeks so some time in February 73 elementary school children in East Vancouver will get a new playground. Lord Selkirk Annex had applied to The Vancouver Sun Children&#8217;s Fund for a $7,800 grant to erect used playground ]]></description>
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