Tag: food bank

  • ‘A downstream solution to an upstream problem’

    ‘A downstream solution to an upstream problem’

    When the first food bank was created in Canada in 1981 in Edmonton, it was seen as a short-term project that would be unnecessary when the economy improved. Fast-forward to 2017 and Kitchener’s House of Friendship’s emergency food program that distributes food to 1 in 20 people living in Waterloo Region. Previously in a cramped,…