Thank you for your question.
Yes, this support will help organizations like Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society continue our programming and potentially improve our quality and expand our reach. It will also support other programs to start from scratch and provide that infrastructure that is needed to ensure we have kitchens available and resources available in the schools to provide the school food programs.
Because it goes through the provincial governments, which already have relationships and partnerships with the school boards in their provinces and territories, we really support this method on behalf of the Coalition for Healthy School Food. We think this is an efficient way to start implementing this right away. This is needed as soon as possible to make sure our programs can continue to run and expand to support even more children having access to healthy food, as well as learning.
I talked a bit about the need for food security and to feed children, but here at Fresh Roots, a big part of our mandate is around education. The more the children learn to connect with food and the land their food comes from, the more they appreciate that, are really engaged and develop those life skills around cooking and sharing food.
All of these things are really important. We definitely appreciate your support for this movement.