The Canadian FoodGrains Bank will hold a fundraising and information banquet at Oungre Memorial Regional Park on Saturday, Nov. 19. The dinner will be held at 6 p.m.
The Canadian FoodGrains Bank will hold a fundraising and information banquet at Oungre Memorial Regional Park on Saturday, Nov. 19.
The dinner will be held at 6 p.m. at Oungre Regional Park, located south of Weyburn, featuring an overseas food aid worker as a guest speaker.
The speaker is Arun Kumar Naik, who is from Motihari of the state of Bihar in India.
He works with the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief, which partners with World Relief Canada.
He manages food security programs that are supported by the Canadian FoodGrains Bank.
The FoodGrains Bank is a non-profit charitable organization whose purpose is to help meet the need for food overseas. They are a partnership of Canadian churches and church-based agencies working together to end global hunger.
In the southeast area, the bank is annually supported by the service held for the Weyburn Wheat Festival in August, and also by a group of producers south of Weyburn in the Lake Alma area who plant and harvest an entire field of wheat which is given to the FoodGrains Bank.
Their donations of food are usually matched by the government through CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency.
