When you’re choosing items to donate to your local food bank, consider donating nutritious foods, particularly those that are considered heart-healthy
If you are thinking of making a food bank donation this holiday season, please consider these nutritious items in this handy list.
4 million Canadians are food insecure and struggle to put enough food on the table. Every day they face tough decisions about how to make ends meet.
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This month, our spotlight is on Diane Corkum from Project SHARE in Niagara Falls, ON.
Did you know that girls and women represent 49% of the adults who access food banks each month?
With the help of committed partners and donors like you, Food Banks Canada was able to provide more food and funds to the food banking network than ever before.
We invite you to follow one of three stories of people experiencing food insecurity, and decide what you would do in each person’s situation. What choices would you make?
Canadians visited food banks nearly 1.1 million times in March 2019
of those relying on food banks nationally are children, when they only represent 19% of the population
of those relying on food banks receive their main source of income from either provincial disability support or pensions.
of those using food banks are from single-person households
assisted by food banks are employed
of food bank clients in Canada live in market rent housing
of food distributed by Canadian food banks is fresh (eg. milk, eggs, fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables, bread)
We are pleased to work closely with 10 provincial associations and over 500 food banks