[homeles_ot-l] 2012 HungerCount Report - food bank use increasing

[Linda Lalonde]

Hi folks,
 
This has just come out today - I think most of us won't be surprised by the results. Their #1 recommendation is to increase affordable housing since housing cost is a significant contributor to hunger.
 
Linda. 
 
--- On Tue, 10/30/12, Food Banks Canada <info at foodbankscanada.ca> wrote:





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En Français








 

October 30th 2012


































Food Banks Canada reports
record numbers of Canadians
are using food banks.
882,000 per month -
38% are children





 
Food Banks Canada announced in Ottawa today that food bank use in Canada increased by 2.4% this year, and is now a staggering 31% higher than before the 2008-2009 recession.
 
 The HungerCount 2012 report highlights that in a typical month, food banks across the country provide food to more than three quarters of a million separate individuals – 882,000 people
– and more than 339,000 (38%) of those helped are children. 
 
As Katharine Schmidt, Executive Director of Food Banks Canada noted to the audience of political leaders and decision-makers gathered in Ottawa today: “It is shocking that, in a country as prosperous as Canada, hundreds of thousands of children rely on food banks to have enough to eat. Though food banks do what they can to fill the need, too many kids are still going to bed hungry.”
 
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