There's an additional $3,450 to help feed Yellowknife youth thanks to donations to a YK Cares' Santa photo fundraiser held at the Co-op on Saturday.
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Each kit is intended to feed one child for the two days of the weekend. The kits include two servings each of breakfast, lunch, supper, morning snacks and afternoon snacks, as well as popcorn, juice and hot chocolate. At the end of every school week, kids take these kits home.
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The organization delivered 2,128 weekend food kits to youth in Yellowknife in 2016.
Yellowknife Beverages and YK Co-op sponsored Saturday's Santa photo fundraiser while Shawna Peterson Photography created the images. Photo sessions drummed up $15 donations apiece.
The event has been running for four to five years, said Canning, who added that demand for the kits has been fairly consistent over the years.
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