As of January 2025

What Makes Us Different?
Food Bank On Wheels also helps to support School District 42 with food donations, they receive loaves of breads and buns to their elementary schools, supporting their free breakfast programs.
Also four high schools receive bread, buns and focaccia pizzas that support their free food security programs. Special Thank you, to Casa Del Pane Bakery in Port Moody for supporting us in our goal to ensure we can help students who are hungry have access to delicious and healthy foods that is made available as needed at school!

Programs from 2023-2025
Nov 2023-Dec  2024

From Jeannie Harnett – School District 42
Program Manager Community Connections and Healthy Living/Food Security:

“We are so grateful for this support. More and more families are finding it difficult to make it from one pay period to the next. These packs help families over the weekends, when our school food programs are not available for their children. Within the school day, we support breakfast, snack and lunch programs. We are finding it difficult to keep snack bins full, as kids are welcome to access throughout the day when ever they are hungry, removing stigma and shame. Chris and his crew are kind and flexible in their approach to support food security. Thank you to all who support the Food Bank on Wheels, making it possible for them to do the great work that they do, benefiting so many!”

After a few initial phone conversations and emails to see how we could help, on November 17, 2023 Food Bank on Wheels met then with
Jeannie Harnett of School District 42, who is coordinating with partner community agencies to fill hampers, take referrals and arrange deliveries to the school families.

FBOW began providing (12) Weekend Food Packs from Nov 2023 – Dec 2024 FBOW also stepped in to provide Christmas Food Hampers to families at SD42 who were unable to register with the Christmas Bureau for 2023/24

This was not a service provided by SD42 but by Food Bank On Wheels for SD42 until Dec 2024.

Below is a picture showing the average size of our 2023/24
Food Bank On Wheels Share Your Christmas Food Hampers.
Which was provided by Food Bank On Wheels for refereed families from SD42

Then through 2024, FBOW was providing surplus foods for
SD42 – Emergency Food Needs that come up at SD42,
as well as snacks for the In-School Snack Programs.

This service was on a time limited basis for 2024 only.

One of our main donors that has been making a huge difference
with the School District’s needs is
Casa Del Pane Bakery & Deli in Port Moody.

From Jeannie Harnett – School District 42:
“We wanted to reach out and let you know what a difference the breads are making for our school food security programs! We are sharing our weekly donation out now with a couple of high schools and several of our elementary schools. They are so grateful each week! We have even been able to share with a few families through our Emergency Pantry Program.”

Food Bank On Wheels  commitment  to  SD42  is :

Food donations, of loaves of breads and buns to their elementary schools, supporting their free breakfast programs.
Also, four high schools will receive bread, buns and focaccia pizzas that supports their free food security programs.
Special Thank you, to Casa Del Pane Bakery in Port Moody for supporting us in our goal to ensure we can help SD42 students who are hungry to have access to delicious and healthy foods that is made available as needed at school!

It’s truly amazing when local businesses join in to do what they can and help with feeding our communities and we can’t thank them enough.

We are very excited to be working hand in hand with SD42 where we can have a direct impact on the children and families who live in the Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows communities.

We look forward to growing this awesome partnership.

See more about the SD42’s Food Security Programs here:
https://www.sd42.ca/sd42-security-programs/

Stop by Casa Del Pane in Port Moody at:
242 Newport Dr, Port Moody, BC V3H 5B9
Website: https://www.casadelpanebakery.ca/