What do we do?
- Divert waste from landfill
- Address community food insecurities
- Make the healthy choice more accessible
- Address community food insecurities
- Make the healthy choice more accessible
Impact:
Food recovered: over 470,000 lbs
Meals produced: over 40,000 servings
Meals produced: over 40,000 servings
Who is involved?
Volunteers:
- from picking up food, to sorting, processing & cooking!
- averaging 275 hours per month
We recover food weekly from these local donors:
- Save On Foods
- Real Canadian Superstore
- Bread & Butter Bakery
- Burrito Grill
- Will call basis: Stoke Market, Shopper's Drug Mart, local restaurants, restaurant suppliers, farms & backyard gardens
We distribute recovered food weekly to these agency partners:
- Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank
- local Schools (Selkirk Secondary, McKim Elementary, Alternate, Independent, Ecole Francophone)
- Blarchmont Early Learning Centre
- Bellies to Babies Pregnancy Outreach
- Home Support Nursing
- Seniors Helping Seniors
- Aq'am School & Community Pantry
- Gardenview Assisted Living subsidized residents
- Community Paramedic
- As needed: local church groups, community events, after-care programs
We distribute food directly each week via:
- doorstep deliveries
- Friday Open to Public
- volunteers
- from picking up food, to sorting, processing & cooking!
- averaging 275 hours per month
We recover food weekly from these local donors:
- Save On Foods
- Real Canadian Superstore
- Bread & Butter Bakery
- Burrito Grill
- Will call basis: Stoke Market, Shopper's Drug Mart, local restaurants, restaurant suppliers, farms & backyard gardens
We distribute recovered food weekly to these agency partners:
- Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank
- local Schools (Selkirk Secondary, McKim Elementary, Alternate, Independent, Ecole Francophone)
- Blarchmont Early Learning Centre
- Bellies to Babies Pregnancy Outreach
- Home Support Nursing
- Seniors Helping Seniors
- Aq'am School & Community Pantry
- Gardenview Assisted Living subsidized residents
- Community Paramedic
- As needed: local church groups, community events, after-care programs
We distribute food directly each week via:
- doorstep deliveries
- Friday Open to Public
- volunteers
What are we doing to reach our goals?
- Distributing fresh groceries through agencies & the public
- Producing & distributing meals
- Distributing compost & animal feed to farmers
- Working toward longterm sustainability (funding from a variety of sources & means)
- Building food literacy skills
Why do we do it?
- to be part of building a healthy community (people & our environment)
- to increase the impact of already existing services
- to identify & fill gaps in community food services
- to increase the impact of already existing services
- to identify & fill gaps in community food services
How are we doing it?
- Building & Cultivating Relationships
- volunteers
- agencies
- donors
- businesses
- other non-profits
- government
- funders
- Inclusive & empowered food access
- accessibility & welcoming atmosphere
- lowering stigma
- group cooking
- Collaborations
- resource sharing
- collective planning
