Daniel Germain | |
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| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) |
| Known for | President and founder of the Breakfast Club of Canada |
Daniel Germain, CM CQ MSM (born 1964) is a Canadian philanthropist. He is president and founder of the Breakfast Club of Canada, a Canadian charity that promotes and assists the establishment and maintenance of school breakfast programs in Canada. [1] The Breakfast Club provides more than 48 million breakfasts every year to more than 250,000 students in over 1,900 schools across Canada. [2]
Born in Verdun, Quebec, his parents broke up when he was young and he spent much of his childhood in foster care. [1] Struggling in school, he dropped out and spent his late teens and early 20s as a smalltime drug dealer, before resolving to change his life after getting arrested and spending some time in jail in the late 1980s. [1]
He joined a Canadian International Development Agency relief program to Mexico, [3] and participated in 60 aid trips to Mexico and Haiti over the next five years. Daniel has 3 children and is married to Quebec author Melanie Fortin. [1]
In 1994, he launched a breakfast program at an elementary school in Longueuil, Quebec, which expanded into the Club des petits dejeuners du Québec. [4] The organization further expanded into the rest of Canada in 2005 as the Breakfast Club of Canada. [1]
In 2006, he created the Millennium Promise Summit, an annual conference of global leaders and activists on strategies to eliminate child poverty. [5]
In 2004, Germain was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. [6] In 2007, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. [7]
In 2009, he was made a member of the Order of Canada [8] and in 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. [9]
In 2011, Correlieu Secondary School in Quesnel, British Columbia, upon learning that Germain had never completed his high school education, granted him an honorary high school diploma. [10]
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