As I get ready to start my District Governor club visits in September I am looking forward to learning about the clubs’ service projects and plans. I want to listen to concerns & challenges facing our clubs.  I will provide some highlights of the District in 2025-26,

My role as DG is to support and strengthen our clubs so all members can fully enjoy the experience of Rotary. 

Please check the District calendar for DG visits which will be updated as they are booked  Thanks.

Jan

Jan Gisborne
District 5040 Governor
 

Students and families of Spruceland Community School in Prince George need access to healthy food not only during the school year, but during summer break. Rotary Club of Prince George Yellowhead with $5,000 and $5,000 from The Rotary Foundation through a District Grant supported development of a school community garden that is providing opportunity for the healthful impacts that food literacy teaching and learning can have on student mental and physical health and school-community relationship building.

The garden has created a school-wide project where all classes will have a shared objective of creating and caring for the living ecosystem and celebrating in the harvest that provides food for the meals served.

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.