In BC, more than 1 in 3 kids don’t have enough food at home.
$100 fills a child’s backpack with food every Friday this month.
Give Kids Food They Can Count On Every Friday
Fill children’s backpacks with food — and hope — for the weekend.
Your gift helps provide meals, snacks, milk, and fresh fruit & veggies to children across BC.
Behind Every Door is a Different Story
As children across BC head back to school, many families are buying school supplies, finding new school clothes, and registering for new activities.
But for thousands of children, back-to-school can look very different.
And some of those children are likely right in your own neighbourhood.
Every morning, you may see children heading out their front doors with backpacks on their shoulders.
From the outside, their lives may appear similar.
But behind one child’s door, there’s enough food to get through the weekend.
Behind the other, there may be worry about going to school hungry and empty cupboards on the weekend.
That is the heartbreaking reality for far too many children across BC.
In fact, 288,000 children in our province now face food insecurity.
It’s no wonder childhood hunger is often much closer than we think — sometimes right next door.
We all see how expensive groceries have become. For families already stretched thin, putting enough food on the table can feel impossible.
School meal programs are a lifeline but for many children, Friday’s school lunch may be the last reliable meal they receive until Monday morning.
This is the weekend hunger gap.
Every Friday, Backpack Buddies Helps Fill the Weekend Hunger Gap
During the week
Children receive meals at school
On Friday
Kids Face the Weekend without enough food
Backpack Buddies steps in
Children head home with backpacks filled with food for the weekend.
What’s in the bag?
Reliable food changes everything.
- Children return to school nourished and ready to learn
- Families experience less stress and uncertainty
- Kids gain confidence, stability, and dignity
- Children get the chance to simply be children
Because hunger doesn’t take the weekend off.
GIVE NOW“Knowing there would be food on Friday changed everything for our family.”
I never imagined feeding my boys would become this hard.
Like so many families across BC, I’m doing everything I can to stretch what we have. But groceries keep getting more expensive, and every month feels a little harder.
Fridays were always the most stressful.
I knew my boys would be home for two long days, and I never felt like there was enough food to get us through the weekend.
Then one Friday, my son came home with a Backpack Buddies bag for the first time.
Inside were meals, snacks, milk , and fresh food for the weekend.
But honestly, it meant so much more than food.
It meant relief.
For the first time in a long time, I knew my boys would have food they could count on.
And that changed everything.
