• Total visits to food banks have gone up by 12.5% since 1996. Source: Canadian Council on Social Development, 2002
• Hungry students are often uninterested in learning and unable to concentrate – factors that significantly impact the ability to learn.
• Hungry children miss more school, thereby losing even more ground academically.
• Hungry students often present discipline problems, disrupting the learning process for themselves and others. Source: National Education Association

Starting the day with a healthy breakfast is critical to a child’s ability to learn. In low-income families breakfast skipping often relates to financial pressures where there just isn’t enough money in the family to meet basic needs let alone adequate nutrition.

Kids Nutrition and Life Skills Club currently provides a healthy breakfast to more than 40 children each day during the school year. These children come from the largest social housing complex in the Region of Peel and many are in single parent families.

Our Goals are to:

• Provide healthy and nutritious breakfasts.
• Teach children about nutrition and healthy eating.
• Conduct cooking and food preparation classes for kids and parents.
• Teach life-skills to kids including manners, table setting, clean-up and conduct/behavior at the dinner table.

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