Adopt-A-School: Trapped by poverty, saved by Downtown Eastside school breakfast program

To those who don’t live there, the Downtown Eastside is Vancouver’s valley of the poor and the influence it exerts over the imagination of those living in comfort elsewhere is profound.
It’s the sheer weight of the suffering that’s obvious on the streets of Canada’s poorest postal code — the addiction, the mental illness, the homelessness, the poverty.
But what isn’t so obvious is the courage and dignity of many of its residents, an example of which are