For immediate release
October 27, 2000

Food for Learning receives grant

         The Food for Learning Committee (formerly The Hunger Committee) recently learned that their proposal to the Canadian Living Foundation Breakfast for Learning was approved for a generous Community Partners Grant of $40 000.00. The funding will be made available over the next two years.
         The Food for Learning committee membership is responsible for supporting over 30 nutrition programs throughout the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board. The money granted is earmarked for the specific purpose of developing local partnerships to assist school programs in becoming sustainable in the future. It will provide the committee with the financial means to hire a local co-ordinator who will assist in providing consistent nutritional support to sponsoring schools, manage fund raising initiatives designed to support the purchase of food, and co-ordinate a system for accessing food donations.
         "Local schools sponsor their own fund raising projects to pay for the food served in their programs" says Carolyn Ketcheson, of the Food for Learning Committee. "But often schools find that they run out of funds and this is when they apply to the central committee for financial support."  Ketcheson  stressed that the new grant money received by the committee is not designated for the purchase of food or kitchen equipment. "Schools and the central committee will still need to be involved in raising funds for this purpose. But having a part-time co-ordinator in place will go a long way toward making school programs accessible to our students in the future."
 

For information contact:
Carolyn Ketcheson, Careers Curriculum Co-ordinator, 966-9491 ext. 2325
or
Ian Press, Curriculum Co-ordinator, 966-9491, ext 2308