N.B. food bank sees ‘more and more kids’ as questions linger over school lunch program delay
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The food bank shares a building with the Riverview Boys and Girls Club, where executive director Lynda Carey said an increased number of kids who are visiting are hungry.
The Albert County Food Bank is seeing more clients than ever before, as a larger number of families struggle to put food on the table.
The food bank is located in the same building as the Riverview Boys and Girls Club, where executive director Lynda Carey said an increased number of children who are visiting are hungry.
“Kids come down to our program space where we get lunches that are available to them through fundraising efforts of the club,” she said.
“More and more kids are coming, anywhere between 20 and 25 kids a day, coming down to get lunch. It’s more all the time, more kids needing food options.”
Carey was disappointed to learn that a federally funded pay-what-you-can school lunch program was being pushed back by the province until next September.
On Friday, New Brunswick’s Liberal government announced it was postponing the program by a year, reneging on an election promise.
In a statement sent to Global News, a spokesperson for the Department of Education said the government is taking the extra time to study issues that have come up from similar programs.
“We will take the lessons we learn from this expansion, the lessons learned in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island when they launched their respective lunch programs, and the findings of the Auditors General in those jurisdictions and apply them to the rollout of the school lunch program in the 2026-27 school year to ensure it can accessed by all public school students from day one,” the statement read.
Lina Vargas was on the board for almost two years and told Global News that accountability and transparency are fundamental rights for all community members.
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