The return of students to class means it's back to making and packing lunches everyday.

But some parents, despite their best efforts, aren't able to provide a nutritious lunch and that's where Food for Thought comes in.

Organizer Suvi Tuulia Lorenz says the need is going up.

"Our numbers are still increasing, the schools are still letting us know that should expect high numbers this year, even higher numbers than last year," says Tuulia Lorenz.

"We ended the last school year with about 120 to 130 lunches per day, or just under 20,000 for the entire school year."

She says the economy is a big part of the problem as well as single parents with too much on their plate.

"One mom, who was a single parent, and she made her daughter make the lunches for her brothers and herself and sent them to school and the girl was not able at lunchtime to play with her friends because she made sure that her little brothers were eating," she says.

She says they don't just provide lunches for children whose parents can't afford them, but for those who are simply too overwhelmed to do it.

She says donations of things like plastic cutlery, lunch bags, peanut free granola bars, fruit cup, juice boxes can be dropped off at the Highwood Memorial Centre.

A fundraising carnival is planned for Friday Sept. 2, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Ramada parking lot with a petting zoo, bbq and lots of activities for the whole family.

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