Today, Breakfast Club of Canada is launching its important Back-to-School fundraising campaign to be able to meet the ever-growing demand for school nutrition programs.
For nearly two years, the federal government has promised to create and fund a national school food policy and healthy meal program. After the pledge was left out of the 2023 federal budget, however, advocates warn the future of schools ability to keep offering meals to students is in jeopardy.
- Federal Budget 2023 – National School Food Program -
Following the tabling of the federal government s 2023 budget, Breakfast Club of Canada is concerned
Implemented in 2018 in around 15 educational daycare centres in disadvantaged areas, the Quebec Breakfast Club pilot project will be extended to some 20 additional establishments in 14 regions of the province.