Hundreds, if not thousands, of B.C. kids go to school hungry
Forty children come to Richmond's William Bridge elementary hungry every day and bring nothing for lunch. By cobbling together donations from people and businesses, the staff has so far been able to...
View ArticleRotary Club to hold skating event to fund school breakfast programs
The Rotary Club of Richmond Sunset will hold a fundraising skating event May 8 at the Richmond Olympic Oval to raise money to feed the city's hungry schoolchildren. The Second Annual...
View ArticlePasco schools develop programs to feed hungry students at home
MEGAN HUSSEYTampa Bay Times Wednesday, October 29, 2014 6:11pm Michele Miller | Times Ridgewood High staffer Catherine Adair collects and gives out food after she noticed a severe hunger problem at her...
View ArticleDonations aim to help hungry kids over winter break
On Christmas Eve, Broad Acres Elementary School’s acting principal, Luis San Sebastian, stood by as citizens drove up to the Silver Spring school loaded with gifts for his students’ needy families. One...
View ArticleWhy Teachers Are Battling Against Free Breakfast in Their Classrooms
Principal Susan Lasken said her students have a hands-down favorite day of the week: Waffle Day. That’s when nearly all 635 kids arrive at Sunnybrae Elementary School in Winnetka, California, promptly...
View ArticleAmerican school children shouldn't go hungry. Neither should their parents
Last week, an uproar ensued when dozens of children at an elementary school in Utah had their lunch trays snatched away from them because their accounts were not paid up. The untouched lunches were...
View ArticleMore kids skip school lunch, but breakfasts are up
Story Highlights Some schools are offering free breakfast to all kidsKids who eat breakfast do better on standardized testsThey also have improved attention spans, memory skills...
View ArticleCalories are not created equal
It's not that I don't welcome good news, but here's a caveat to go along with recent reports that children in the U.S. are consuming fewer calories: All calories are not created equal. A recent...
View ArticleThe messy complications of breakfast in the classroom
The Los Angeles Unified School District is in a period of tremendous upheaval that, it’s hoped, will result in better education for its students. With so much changing and so much at stake, of course...
View ArticlePriority is to feed the children
Whose fault is it that a kindergartner arrives for school every morning without having had breakfast and, sometimes, without having eaten dinner the night before? Who's to blame when an elementary...
View ArticleMoberly elementary faces unique challenges
Unlike some Eastside Vancouver schools, Walter Moberly elementary, with its predominantly South Asian population, neither needs an emergency breakfast program nor hot lunches for its 490 students. What...
View ArticleHealthy, affordable cooking with a big dose of fun
Kate McDonald and two helpers stand in front of the nine kids in the Cooking Matters class, holding a length of green ribbon high above their heads. It spans most of the room at Sojourner Truth...
View ArticleOur Daily Bread feeds Denton’s hungry
Four more years. That’s how long it will take for 69-year-old Violet Hatcher to pay off her home. “What I get in Social Security is not going to be enough to pay the house payment,” Hatcher said....
View ArticleBritannia's needs are elementary
It's an unpalatable fact likely to upset middle-class sensibilities, but affairs are so dire at Britannia elementary when it comes to clothing its needy children that used underwear is gratefully...
View ArticleTelus employees donate time on Day of Giving
Today, an estimated 13,000 Telus employees across the country have given up their day off to help those hard-pressed community volunteer services that always have more work than hands to do it. There...
View ArticleDonation turns holiday hardship into joy
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...
View ArticleKellogg's survey warns of rise in hungry pupils denied breakfast 'brain fuel'
Food firm behind breakfast clubs claims 26% of teachers see primary school pupils fall asleep in class from lack of food ...
View ArticleFrom riches to rags to riches - to donor
It's been 40 years, but Divyesh Gadhia can remember all the acts of unexpected kindness that ordinary Canadians showed to him and his family when they arrived here as destitute refugees from Uganda in...
View ArticleFeeding Hungry Kids in America
Pumpkins on the front porch. A certain crispness in the air. Have you been to a local apple orchard, or a harvest fair? Fall is the time of bounty and a special gala celebration of colors as Mother...
View ArticleSchools tackle the problem of hungry students
Hattiesburg parent Geneal Washington finds it hard to make ends meet on the $650 she brings home biweekly as an accountant at Ellisville State School. She said she spends about $300 a month on food for...
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