by Marcela Zafra | Nov 8, 2019 | Blog, Community, Updates |
29 years ago, a group of Calgarians got together and, realizing that there were kids in their community going without food, started making lunches – a few hundred a day – and got them into the hands of kids who needed them. From that inauspicious beginning has...
by josh@bb4ck.org | Jul 25, 2019 | BB4CK Staff Team, Updates |
Last month our Executive Director was invited to Prairie Waters Elementary School to speak about BB4CK with their students. We wanted to share what one of the students wrote about Tanya’s visit: “Tanya Koshowski the Executive Director for Brown Bagging for...
by josh@bb4ck.org | Aug 24, 2018 | Community, Impact Story, Updates |
You’ve probably noticed the cost of your groceries going up in the last year, especially the prices of your favourite fruits and vegetables. We’ve all felt the impact of those changes – Kerry’s family is no different. Kerry is a mom of two – Jonah, who’s in grade 4,...
by josh@bb4ck.org | Jul 30, 2018 | Community, Updates |
Food Finder YYC is a group of organizations creatively working together to feed hungry kids during the summer months. Hunger doesn’t take a summer break, and last summer, the Food Finder YYC partners came together to create a new service for kids and teens to access...
by josh@bb4ck.org | Jul 24, 2018 | Community, Updates |
It’s Tuesday morning, and the Nourish Van is stocked with books, healthy snacks, chalk, crafts and more as it heads out to visit children in summer programs across Calgary. Today, the van and its team will visit three different sites, engaging and educating the...
by josh@bb4ck.org | Jun 19, 2018 | Impact Story, Updates |
Have you ever been hungry? Genuinely hungry – the kind of hungry where your stomach growls, then starts to feel empty and hollow? The kind of hungry where you know you’re hungry, but your stomach is past the point of hurting? So hungry that all your thoughts center on...
