The Breakfast Club of Canada has set up an emergency fund to support Canadian children facing food insecurity across the country during the coronavirus crisis.
The emergency fund will help the organization reach the 250,000 children who no longer have access to the meals it provides and that they rely on when they go to school. “We’ll focus on food-insecure households with children across Canada, including those in Indigenous communities,” said Tommy Kulczyk, the general manager of the Breakfast Club of Canada.
In Quebec alone, there are 383 programs making sure 32,000 children are fed every morning before they start class. But those are no longer in operation because of mandatory school closures. “The situation is extremely urgent at this