A Winnipeg fundraiser will help Fuel4School, a do-it-yourself lunch program in the West Broadway area.

Edward Carriere and Deborah Seguin at the salon's 2013 fundraiser for Winnipeg's Art City, which raised $25,000. (Kathleen Willson) Edward Carriere will donate all proceeds from his salon Wednesday to the program, which makes sure many children in the inner-city have fresh, healthy food.

"Being in the neighbourhood, you see kids that are in need," Carriere said, who has held fundraisers to benefit local community groups for the past 12 years.

Staff at the Spence Street salon will donate their time for the day and all money that comes in from services, including haircuts, manicures and pedicures, will go to Fuel4School, which operates out of the Broadway Neighbourhood Centre.

Everything will pause for a moment of silence at 11 a.m. Wednesday, in honour of Remembrance Day, Carriere said.

He hopes to raise around $15,000.

About 35 children, age six to 17, make their own healthy lunches at the Broadway Neighbourhood Centre, four days a week. The brown bags are delivered to schools in the West Broadway area the next day.

Anneliese Schoppe, the centre's youth nutrition facilitator, said the need is great.

"Some kids wouldn't have lunches to go to school," Schoppe said. "There's a huge need in this area, especially for children to be able to have access to fresh, healthy food.

"Some kids would have to rely on the emergency lunch program at schools, which puts stress on schools," she said.

The name of the program, Fuel4School, says it all, Schoppe said.

"This is a really great option to get kids matched with a healthy lunch that they want to eat themselves and really get them in right mind space to be able to learn."