Food Programs

Food for Learning, Student Emergency Fund & Food for Home
Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation
www.hpefoodforlearning.ca
Students need to connect with their teacher or principal to access the following programs

Food for Learning – ensures that all students have daily access to healthy nutritious food while at school.

• Student Emergency Fund – gives immediate assistance to students, and perhaps their families, by providing financial aid and/or gift-in-kind support.
  This funding could be used to purchase items such as eyeglasses, EpiPens, medical supplies, food and clothing, transportation, to subsidize field trips, or to assist with additional financial needs that result from family crises (fire, flood, layoffs, illness, etc).
• Food for Home – provides support for food during non-school times during the school year ie. December & March Break)

Since the onset of Covid, schools are seeing more students coming with no or very little lunch. In 2021, the Learning Foundation expanded the Food for Home program and now offers Nutrition Pantries in 5 schools with PECI being the newest starting in January 2022. The Nutrition Pantry provides a supply of nutritious food items that students can access at school and take home to prepare while allowing them the make selections based on dietary needs.

Donations are always appreciated to ensure that the Nutrition Pantries can continue next school year and perhaps even expand to other schools. As well, grocery gift cards in the hands of Principals are an effective way to provide support. They are very connected to students and families and can get the cards quickly into the hands of those who need them.