Food bank need in Canada: unacceptably high

Food bank need in Canada: unacceptably high

Across the country, there were 1,096,935 visits to food banks last March, a number Food Banks Canada’s Kirstin Beardsley calls ‘unacceptable.’ (Angela Bosse/CBC) Food Banks Canada is a charitable umbrella organisation for food banks. It annually releases a survey of food bank use in Canada. Food banks are non-profit voluntary operations where individual people and marketers (stores, manufacturers, growers, bakeries etc) can donate food for others in need who can then come and get basic foodstuffs for free.

The Food Banks Canada survey results of food bank use have just been released.

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