Adopt-A-School: Vancouver Dentist Helps Take Bite Out of Hunger for City Children

From the large windows in her dental office, Dr. Joyce Chan can see children making their way across Kingsway to Lord Selkirk, the largest elementary school in Vancouver located a few blocks north.

“It wasn’t until I read stories in The Vancouver Sun last year about the numbers of children going to school hungry that I realized some of the children I was seeing must be in need of feeding,” she said.

Her practice, Karma Dental — on Kingsway between Knight and Victoria — opened earlier this year but she had spent much of 2018 at the site getting it furnished and ready.

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