{"id":152437,"date":"2023-05-08T10:57:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=152437"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:30:59","slug":"campus-brome-missisquoi-students-raise-funds-to-bring-back-its-breakfast-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/campus-brome-missisquoi-students-raise-funds-to-bring-back-its-breakfast-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus breakfast club faces challenges due to increased food costs and necessary kitchen upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students from Campus Brome-Missisquoi\u2019s (CBM) Adult Education centre<\/span><\/a> are raising funds to update the centre\u2019s kitchen area in order to offer its breakfast\u00a0 program once again. \u00a0With the increase in food prices, the need for more funds is greater than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the last few years, the centre has had its own breakfast club that provides low cost breakfast for students and staff. For those students that participate in the breakfast club, it also provides them with the opportunity to learn important life skills related to food security as they enter adulthood. However, the centre was forced to put the breakfast club on hold because it needed to bring the kitchen up to code.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, students have been looking for sources of funding so that they can purchase new kitchen appliances and renovate the space to continue helping their peers by ensuring that they don\u2019t show up to school on an empty stomach. According to Maude Danis Coulombe, assistant director of the Campus Brome-Missisquoi\u2019s Adult Education centre, there is a major need for a breakfast program due to food price inflation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw a huge difference with all of the increases in prices of food. We have some other initiatives as well where we always keep granola bars in our student services room. It\u2019s something that worries us a lot,\u201d noted\u00a0 <\/span>Danis Coulombe. \u201cTo build it with our students, to make sure that the day they decide to move on with their lives that they still have the good reflex on how to cook on budget and have access to good food, that, for us, is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danis Coulombe explained that while breakfast programs are usually offered at the primary and secondary level it is not always the case for the adult education centres, which is why CBM\u2019s Adult Education centre started its breakfast club. The centre tried alternative options at the beginning of the year so that the breakfast club could keep their program going, but things didn\u2019t pan out. \u201cIt was a very tough decision that we had to make. (\u2026) We tried a couple of options at the beginning of the year, but unfortunately nothing worked so we closed it. We actually have the chance to have amazing students who brought it up to us and said \u2018there is no way we can close our breakfast club.\u2019 Everything started to be clear to us, we had to do something for them and with them to re-open it,\u201d said Danis Coulombe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marina Kyle and Owen Bryant, two of the four students that form the breakfast club committee, acknowledged that they\u2019ve both seen the positive impact that the breakfast program has on the students they serve. They say that being a part of the breakfast club has also benefitted them in more ways than one.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cAs we\u2019re kinda still young, and we\u2019re just hitting that adulthood, I think it\u2019s great because we are learning how to budget, we are learning inventory, we\u2019re learning so many unique things that we need to include in our adulthood,\u201d said Kyle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like a dollar and some students don\u2019t normally eat breakfast in the morning. I take the bus and my bus is about 40 minutes or so, I don\u2019t have time to eat breakfast in the morning. It really benefits the students,\u201d added Bryant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kyle mentioned that while there are other alternatives available to students, like the low-priced croissants that are offered by CBM\u2019s butcher shop, it doesn\u2019t always fill the student\u2019s stomachs. The breakfast club makes more food options accessible to the students that need it. \u201cSometimes they don\u2019t always want a croissant. Sometimes they might want something a little bit more filling, like a grilled cheese. Croissants are a very light, light thing to have in the morning. So I think if you\u2019re a little bit more hungry, we offer that,\u201d said Kyle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The fundraising goal for the centre\u2019s kitchen project is $15,000 and it has raised close to $11,000 so far. The centre received a grant from the Townshippers\u2019 Foundation and the Yamaska Literacy Council has pledged financial support towards the project. Students are also selling chocolate and they have a spaghetti dinner fundraiser scheduled for tomorrow. The breakfast club wants to re-open in September of 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we are going to be student run it takes a lot of leadership for us as students as well. I think it\u2019s such a great opportunity for us and that Maude has given us. I honestly think we can\u2019t be more grateful for the help and support that we have gotten from others, teachers and staff included,\u201d said Kyle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s probably better than being paid seeing the students rise up and say \u2018this is what we need, this is what we want.\u2019 This is the reason why we are here, we want to see them grow into the best version of themselves and that\u2019s what I see here today,\u201d emphasized Danis Coulombe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The spaghetti dinner fundraiser is taking place on May 9 at 180 Ad\u00e9lard-Godbout Cowansville, QC, J2K 3X9 starting at 11:40 a.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets are still available and they can be purchased at the door the day of or reserved in advance by calling CBM. Those that can\u2019t attend the fundraiser can make a general donation to support the breakfast club.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full interview below:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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