More Victoria kids are going to school hungry but the Kids Klub brown bag lunch program is helping. Tess van Straaten reports.
The team at Kids Klub is busy packing food totes for Greater Victoria schools.
“About 500 kids a day go through one of our programs and schools were contacting us identifying kids coming to school without lunch so we want to support families,” explains Vancouver Island Kids Klub executive director Michelle Zielinski. “That’s our organization’s mandate.”“Oh it’s an amazing program,” says Royal Oak Middle School principal Karen MacEwan.
“I wish we could help everybody, it would be nice to have food for everybody, and some schools have a high demand,” says Halliday. “We’ve got schools on the wait list that are 25 children a day and that’s a lot of hungry children.” “We can’t do any more than we’re doing right now, well,” adds Zielinski. “We’re looking at ways to increase what we can do because we really want to continue to meet the need of the community.”Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.Zielinski is hopeful that as more people hear about the program, they’ll want to help.
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