Jordan’s Principle funding cut ends Yukon rural food program feeding Indigenous kids – APTN News
Sep 29, 2025
A Yukon-based First Nations education advocacy organization says it was forced to axe its rural nutrition program after its Jordan’s Principle funding was cut — and warns the decision leaves Indigenous children struggling with food insecurity with even fewer supports.
Melanie Bennett, executive director of the Yukon First Nation Education Directorate, or YFNED, said its rural nutrition program, which ran for the last five years and helped provide two healthy meals a day to 900 children from ages 0 to 18 across rural communities, including schools, daycares and family homes, is no longer operating.
She said the loss of the program has been distressing for vulnerable families.
