Bishop James Mahoney High School is one of 10 schools in Saskatchewan to receive a $15,000 grant through the 2025 Mosaic School Nutrition Challenge. The funding will support hands-on cooking classes, whole-food education, and the sharing of Indigenous knowledge related to food and nutrition.
According to a news release from the Saskatchewan School Boards’ Association (SSBA), Mosaic provided a total of $150,000 in prizes to schools from across the province. Schools receiving grants this year are governed by the Good Spirit, Greater Saskatoon Catholic, Holy Trinity, Living Sky, Northwest, Prairie South, Prairie Valley, Saskatoon Public and Sun West school boards.
The winning projects have goals of implementing or expanding nutrition programs, promoting cooking and gardening, enhancing facilities, increasing educational opportunities, and supporting projects with cultural components.
This program began in 2006 to encourage grassroots initiatives to help improve student nutrition.
Shawn Davidson, president of the SSBA, said “We are grateful for Mosaic’s long-time partnership in this 19th year of the Mosaic Challenge. School food programming is a priority for our organization and central to some of our other recent initiatives. This program continues to contribute to helping to achieve our goal of reducing known barriers to learning, attendance and school success through school food programming.”
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