This challenging time has underscored the essential service that school food programs provide to children and youth in Canada every school day. Like many others across the country, Coalition for Healthy School Food members are developing innovative solutions to ensure that children and youth have access to healthy food in the midst of COVID-19.
Partnerships and models that are established now, such as securing food procured from local farmers and suppliers, or engaging chefs who are currently without work to develop healthy meals and products for students during this time, will strengthen the movement towards a national universal cost shared school food program for Canada. |