Posts tagged ‘child poverty’

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Child poverty is not going away, Adopt-a-School launching for a second year

By Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun Last year’s Adopt-a-School campaign exceeded all expectations and raised close to $800,000 in cash donations and matching funds and a substantial amount of goods and services for inner-city schools struggling against a rising tide of classroom poverty. Such generosity from our readers brought relief to hundreds of children in 37 schools

Peter Young (left), a former student of Strathcona Elementary and Britannia high school in Vancouver, and his Hearts of Gold Foundation donate $25,000 to the Adopt-a-School initiative. The donation will be matched by The Children's Fund. On hand for the presentation were principal Margaret Jorgensen (second from left), teacher Sue Halsey-Brandt (third from left) and foundation director Lynn Woo (right). Photograph by: Les Bazso, PNG

The truth about child poverty: B.C. has had the highest rate in Canada for eight years

Children are going to school in Metro Vancouver without food, without shoes, without winter coats or mittens. Some are tormented by bedbug bites; others with head lice. The stories are as heartbreaking as they seem incredible in this City of Glass so often described as one of the most livable in the world, and in