Each morning when it’s dark outside Sylvia Louvros can be found preparing to feed as many as 50 students, a number of whom wouldn’t be in school that day if she wasn’t there making breakfast.
As the advocate for impoverished students attending Coquitlam’s Banting Middle School, Louvros, the school’s youth worker, has seen how much the prospect of food can change things.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.
When Louvros came to the school last year she dispensed with charging these students a nominal amount for breakfast and lunch.Article contentShe has asked The Vancouver Sun Children’s Fund Adopt-A-School program for $8,000 so she can provide 50 breakfasts and 32 lunches for students arriving at school hungry or without sufficient food for lunch.
When breakfast is over Louvros starts making sandwiches for lunch and begins filling as many as 32 lunch bags with a sandwich and a variety of fruit, vegetables and snacks. “It really helps them. They are able to sit down and have lunch and no one needs to know they can’t afford it. So they have this bag full of food and are able to hang out with their friends. It’s awesome.”Article contentAnd in the week before Christmas break, Louvros was busy making hampers to get families through the holidays.Money is also needed to clothe those students who arrive at school without coats and proper footwear.
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