Feeding Our Future

Nourish the body ... Nourish the mind

Sadly, in Toronto, one in three children live in poverty. Too many students arrive at
school hungry. A 2007 survey revealed that 41% of Toronto school children started
school each day without breakfast.

Toronto Foundation for Student Success and their partners continue to make alleviating hunger a priority and in 2007/2008, we helped support over 500 breakfast, lunch and snack programs, providing nutritious food to over 90,000 children every school day.

The Jane/Finch Universal Breakfast Program - A hungry teen is an angry teen

The Jane/Finch community experiences elevated rates of poverty, immigration, and
violent incidents. When area teachers were asked what they thought was most needed for their students to succeed… “Feed Our Children!” was the overwhelming response.

Not surprising when you consider the facts:

• 68% of our students do not eat breakfast every day; 21% never do
• 54% of our students do not eat lunch every day; 5% never do

In response, as of October 2008, the Feeding Our Future program will be serving approximately 6,000 students in three high schools and four middle schools located in the Jane/Finch region of North York.

While the Feeding Our Future program is making a tremendous impact, there is still
much work to do. However, funding currently provides just a small fraction of every
dollar required and the program has some significant shortfalls:

•  Many hungry students are not receiving assistance
•  Some programs cannot afford fresh fruit and vegetables, crucial components
   of a healthy diet
•  Other programs are forced to forgo milk to stretch their budget
.
It takes only $1.00 to serve a morning meal to a hungry child. Please help us reach our goal of " no hungry students".

Download the Feeding Our Future Program Fact Sheet