Nourish Cowichan is a community-driven non-profit that tries to ensure no child goes through the school day on an empty stomach
It’s Thursday morning and half a dozen women are busily at work in the big kitchen attached to Duncan’s École Mount Prevost.
Welcome to Nourish Cowichan, a community-driven non-profit that tries to ensure no child goes through the school day on an empty stomach. Every weekday volunteers produce snacks, breakfasts and lunches that go out, for free, to 20 Cowichan Valley schools where staff have identified 1,253 students as being in danger of going hungry.
Three years ago, Nourish’s annual budget was $200,000. Then the pandemic hit. “Now we’re approaching the $1 million mark,” says Fatima Da Silva, the organization’s executive director and executive chef. Rising food prices create a double-whammy: not only are they pushing more families into territory where they need help, but it’s costing Nourish more to help them.
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