On the eleventh day of donating…
Of all [the Food Bank’s] clients, 24% are children and youth, 58% are adults, and 18% are seniors.
Source: https://foodbank.bc.ca/about-us/
The Greater Vancouver Food Bank provides assistance to nearly 8,500 people directly and tens of thousands more people through their Community Agency Partners every week! That’s a lot of people. And that’s just to support people in Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, and the North Shore (Other food banks serve people in other suburbs around Vancouver).
While you can donate food to the food bank, the food bank prefers monetary donations because (a) since they buy in large quantities, they can get deals so that $1 will get them $3 worth of stuff, and (b) they can buy what they need to have a variety of food available to people, rather than ending up with a thousand cans of the same stuff.
With so many people struggling due to the pandemic, I think it’s more important than ever to help ensure that everyone can have some food on the table.
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Tags: charitable donation, food bank, food insecurity, Greater Vancouver Food Bank