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Description: While the cruelty of this pandemic needs no describing, what should be described is the effect the indefinite suspension of school will have on impoverished children. With this in mind, The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Society’s board — which administers the decade-old AAS initiative — will liquidate $100,000 from an emergency fund to be used to assist new programs.
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Subject: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Group: Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia
Format: Website content
Date: 2020
Description: Inner-city school in Nanaimo needs help supporting students with basic needs.
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Subject: Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Brechin Elementary School
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo
Format: Website content
Date: 2019-11-29
Description: Vancouver businessman Barj Dhahan was moved when he recently read a Nanaimo principal’s comment that he regarded every child in his school district as his own. The comment Dhahan referenced was made Dec. 22 by Brett Hancock, the principal of the Nanaimo-Ladysmith alternative education program, in a story concerning the help he needs to feed and clothe some of the 300 students under his care.
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Subject: Learning Alternatives, Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Dhahan, Barj, Hancock, Brett
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo
Format: Website content
Date: 2020-01-06
Description: Before she started her own Vancouver media company, Renu Bakshi was a CTV reporter, so it’s no wonder that when she decided to help impoverished children here at Brechin Elementary she would come and see for herself.
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Subject: Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Bakshi, Renu, Brechin Elementary School
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo
Format: Website content
Date: 2019-12-05
Description: Google Woodlands Secondary School and the search engine will come up with the message ‘ Permanently closed’ which is only partially correct. It is here that students in Brett Hancock’s alternative education program can be found each day, depending on how many choose to come. Having food available, however, dramatically increases the odds of attendance.
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Subject: Learning Alternatives, Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Hancock, Brett, Woodlands Secondary School
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo
Format: Website content
Date: 2019-12-23
Description: Relief is on the way from The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School Covid-19 fund to teachers and administrators scrambling to provide food and help to impoverished families. On Thursday, $129,000 was sent out to cover the first batch of applications for help that will go to families in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Surrey, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Langley, Nanaimo and Courtenay.
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Subject: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Comox Valley Schools, Jungwirth, Heidi, Courtenay Elementary School
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia, British Columbia--Courtenay, British Columbia--Comox Valley
Format: Website content
Date: 2020-03-30
Description: Staff at Park Avenue Elementary have been providing breakfast and a bagged lunch for children using food hampers being sent to the school and funds from the school district’s foundation. But that is all running out and without an injection of cash to buy food it can’t continue.
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Subject: Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Nordal, Jessica, Park Avenue Elementary School
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo
Format: Website content
Date: 2020-11-17
Description: Details about the 2020 Uplands Park Elementary School Vancouver Sun Children's Fund campaign.
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Subject: Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, Uplands Park Elementary School, Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo
Format: Website content
Date: 2020
Description: Holly Knox is asking for $22,000 from The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School campaign to carry on the breakfast and lunch program at John Barsby Secondary School after Christmas as no other source of money has materialized
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Subject: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Knox, Holly, John Barsby Secondary School, Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, Larsen-Rogers, Margit, President’s Choice Children’s Charity
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo
Format: Website content
Date: 2021-11-17
Description: Brett Hancock, principal of the alternative school system in Nanaimo, has learned that for a number of his students facing financial hardships, academic success can be explained by a simple equation: food + clothes = graduation.
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Subject: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Hancock, Brett, Dhahan, Barj, Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, Learning Alternatives, Nanaimo-Ladysmith Schools Foundation, Davidson, Crystal, Woodlands Secondary School
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo
Format: Website content
Date: 2020-12-12
Description: Natasha Toth would like to have a hot breakfast available to serve hungry children entering Ray Watkins Elementary in the morning, but she doesn’t have the staff or resources to pull it off.
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Subject: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Ray Watkins Elementary School, Toth, Natasha, School District 84 Vancouver Island West
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Gold River, British Columbia--North Central Vancouver Island
Format: Website content
Date: 2021-11-19
Description: Some of the social issues facing Pender Harbour Elementary-Secondary were normally resolved by fundraising events in the community. But COVID has prevented that.
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Subject: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Pender Harbour Secondary School, School District 46 Sunshine Coast, Lekakis, Chris
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Pender Harbour, British Columbia--Sunshine Coast
Format: Blog post
Date: 2020-12-29
Description: COVID-19 has caused upheaval and distress in schools throughout the province but its effects are falling hardest on the poorest children as the unfortunate state of affairs at Wellington Secondary school clearly illustrates.
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Subject: Wellington Secondary School, Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools, Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, Reno, Susan
Group: Education, K to 12, Food Security, Supports for Youth, Children, & Families
Creator: Bellett, Gerry
Publisher: Vancouver Sun Children's Fund
Coverage: British Columbia--Nanaimo
Format: Blog post
Date: 2020-12-01
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