To build on previous successes, the FCC Drive Away Hunger campaign kicked off this past June 7 with a barbecue at the Humboldt Co-op.
The Humboldt FCC office will once again partner with various organizations and five regional schools to collect donations for the Humboldt and District Food Bank, including Humboldt Public, St. Dominic, St. Augustine and Muenster School.
“We had a great tractor tour last year and were able to collect 16,868 meals for the Food Bank,” said FCC Humboldt Relationship Manager Adrianna Wormworth in an email.
Much of that success was because of the partnership with regional businesses and the schools.
This is the fifteenth year of the Drive Away Hunger campaign with FCC collecting a grand total of 40 million meals for Canadian food banks.
“By Food Bank Canada’s guidelines, $1 equals 3 meals and 1 pound of food equals 1 meal,” says Wormworth.
Food Banks Canada says that over 4 million Canadians are living with food insecurity.
Thanks to the barbecue on June 7, another 1,000 meals were raised for the food bank with more partnerships to come until the campaign wraps up on Oct. 18.
“We hope to get bigger and better each year. Our food drive has been able to assist the Humboldt Food Bank in cutting their annual grocery bill by 25 per cent. That’s pretty awesome,” said Wormworth.
Donations of cash or non-perishable food items can be made at the FCC office until mid-October.
“Some of the most needed items are pasta, rice, sauces, canned meats and fish, packaged nuts and peanut butter, beans, soups, stews, canned fruit and vegetables, flour, whole grain cereals and infant formula or baby food,” said Wormworth.
