Scattered throughout Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are families whose Christmas would be anything but merry without the efforts of generous donors including a former student who never forgot where he came from.
It was Eng who organized hampers of gifts, food, and grocery cards that were distributed to 180 families too poor to feed themselves through the holidays with funds donated by a number of charitable agencies.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Since 1999 Lord Strathcona and Britannia Secondary have received more than $800,000 from his Hearts of Gold Foundation.Article content “I was in Grade 1 and my dad called the school and wanted to speak to me. I got sent to the office but the secretary didn’t want to give me the phone because she said I might have lice.”This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“We’d put our lunch boxes in our cubby hole in the coat room and I’d come and find mine empty. I never realized one of my classmates was so hungry they needed to steal my food.
“Yeah, some years ago David Petraeus, when he was director of the CIA, wanted us to strip our Top Ten label off the back of the ties and have it replaced with his signature as director.In 2005 he discovered Strathcona Elementary had stopped sending its Grade 7 class to Victoria for the annual tour of the legislature because there was no money to do it.Article content
His first donation to Britannia was in 1999, a thank you for the effort teachers had put in to keep him and his friends out of trouble by donating their spare time and weekends organizing sports and tournaments.
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