Since 2020 the cost of groceries alone has increased by 47% along with other cost increases such as rent, household expenses and childcare. Now 29% of children in BC face food insecurity including 44% of children in single parent families. For those who depend on school meal programs throughout the week, each weekend brings stress, fear, and empty cupboards. Then there the months when children are not in school.
Starting in 2012 Back Pack Buddies has engaged local schools, donors, social workers and other non-profits to deliver food to hungry children. Today it supports over 6,000 children every week in 73 communities across BC. At the Backpack Buddies food storage warehouse in North Vancouver problems had arisen with vermin accessing the stored food.
Rotary Club of Lionsgate in North Vancouver has purchased $3,738 of large vermin resistant bulk containers made of weather resistant sturdy corrugated plastic for Backpack Buddies to hygienically store food for many years to come with the support of $1,246 from The Rotary Foundation through a District Grant.
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