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641p-content/uploads/sites/57/2026/09/PC-Childrens-Charity-photo-2-edited-.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://sponsored.carpentermediagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2026/09/PC-Childrens-Charity-photo-2-edited-.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" fetchpriority="high"><p class="wp-caption-text">PC Children’s Charity’s Power Full Kids program supports youth in approximately 2,200 schools across Canada.</p></div> 642<p><span style="font-weight: 400">In the 2025-2026 school year, the program reached 124 schools across B.C., supporting 58,243 B.C. students and delivering 8,386,992 meals and snacks, supporting roughly 10 per cent of school-aged children in the province.</span></p> 643<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Nationally, the scale is even more significant. </span></p> 644<p><span style="font-weight: 400">In 2025, PC Children’s Charity’s Power Full Kids program supported youth in approximately 2,200 schools across Canada helping the charity reach its goal of feeding one million children annually. </span></p> 645<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Over 144 million meals and snacks were provided to students during the school year. </span></p> 646<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Those numbers reflect years of sustained effort by a charity that has been focused on childhood hunger since 2018 and has nurtured the wellbeing of nearly seven million children across the country.</span></p> 647<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Funding for the program comes from a mix of corporate support, fundraising campaigns and customer donations â that last piece is where everyday shoppers play a direct role. </span></p> 648<h3 style="text-align: left">How everyday shoppers are making a difference</h3> 649<p><span style="font-weight: 400">When customers round up their purchase at the checkout of participating Loblaw-banner stores, including Real Canadian Superstore, Wholesale Club and Your Independent Grocer, 100 per cent of that donation goes directly to PC Children’s Charity, helping feed kids in the community. </span></p> 650<p><span style="font-weight: 400">None of it is absorbed by administrative costs. It flows straight to Power Full Kids programming at schools in the community where the purchase was made, supporting healthy snacks and nutrition education for local children.</span></p> 651<h2 style="text-align: center">“<em>Together with the support of Canadians, we can help more children reach their full potential and build a stronger foundation for the future.”</em></h2> 652<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Rounding up is entirely optional and adds only cents to a grocery bill, but the collective impact is substantial. </span></p> 653<p>In 2025 alone, Loblaw stores and customers raised and donated more than $6.8 million to PC Children’s Charity, a figure that reflects what happens when small contributions are made consistently across millions of transactions.</p> 654<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Since 2018, Loblaw has helped mobilize its network of stores, customers, vendors and colleagues to raise more than $150 million for the charity.</span></p> 655<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Access to nutritious food is foundational to children’s health, learning and wellbeing. </span></p> 656<p><span style="font-weight: 400">As families across B.C. head into another back-to-school season, the round-up program offers a simple way to make that access a little more certain for a child in their own community. </span></p> 657<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The next time you’re at the checkout, consider rounding up and know that every cent goes directly to feeding a kid at a local school.</span></p> 658<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400">To learn more about PC Children’s Charity and its Power Full Kids program, visit </span></i><a href="http://pcchildrenscharity.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400">pcchildrenscharity.ca</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400"> or follow along on </span></i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Presidents-Choice-Childrens-Ch
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