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By the end of October, the breakfast program feeding hungry and impoverished high school students at Britannia Secondary was on life support and about to switched off.

“We are out of money,” said principal Alec MacInnes.

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The program, which feeds about 25 students and siblings, has been available to students for a number of years thanks to a grant from The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School program, but the money ran out at the end of the last school year.

MacInnes, who is the new principal at the school at Commercial and Cotton Drive, was reduced to dipping into other school accounts to keep the much-needed program afloat.

But he can’t keep doing that.

“We’ve run the account into the negative, our grant is exhausted,” he said.

Breakfast was stopped for a short time, but students were showing up hungry looking for food.

“There wasn’t a strong backlash, but I made a decision to keep it going,” he said.