🌟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

🌟 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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🌟 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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🌟 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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📣 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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🍎 Canada is a late arrival to the concept of feeding impoverished children who arrive at school hungry. It was just last year that the federal government launched its National School Food Program promising to spend $1 billion over five years.

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🍎 Since 2011, our Adopt-a-School program has supported 338 individual schools and 44 school districts across B.C.

And the need continues to grow.

Applications for our next fundraising campaign are already coming in. Read more about our mission and impact:

vansunkidsfund.ca/stories/aas2...

According to Statistics Canada, British Columbia lost 16,000 jobs in August – the second monthly decline in a row.

Nationally, the unemployment rate has risen to 7.1%. Outside of the pandemic years, this is the highest level of unemployment since 2016.

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According to Statistics Canada, the average asking rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Vancouver rose by 27.3% between 2019 and 2025 – from $2,490 to $3,170.

At the same time, BCBC. com reports that food prices in B.C. increased by 27% from 2019 to 2024.

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🥾Coat, boots, hat – everyday essentials for kids heading to school. But for some, these are items their families simply can't afford.

In some cases, the need is so great that children arrive at school hungry, let alone without basic warm clothing.

Help us provide essentials to kids ⤵️

🎒School’s almost back, and the holidays are just around the corner.

For many, it’s a joyful season. For children in need, it’s filled with worry, especially about food.

Read more about how you can make a difference:
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