Fruits of Sherbrooke launches Project: Fruit Stars – Kickstarter Campaign; E4C partnership will bring rescued fruit into high-needs schools.

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA, Sept. 3, 2015 – To help feed hungry kids, not-for-profit society Fruits of Sherbrooke launched Project: Fruit Stars in partnership with E4C, a non-profit human services charitable organization. Project: Fruit Stars’ goal is to raise $17,000CAD through the online crowd-funding platform Kickstarter.com, running until September 17, 2015. Funds will go towards commercial equipment, kitchen supplies and packaging materials to produce 50,000 apple snack bags, which will be donated to E4C’s School Nutrition Program.

According to the Social Planning Council’s 2015 Poverty Profile, 1 in 5 children in Edmonton live in poverty and about 40% of the people served by Edmonton’s Food Bank in a typical month are children and youth under the age of 18.

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