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Helping Feed Vancouver's Most Needy Families
After doing some research online about which is the biggest challenge to food security in my community (Vancouver, BC, Canada) I have come to the realization
(an unsurprising one) that it is in providing safe and nutritious food to the
most at-risk people: those from low-income families.
As I child, I was part of this group, so I know how difficult it is to concentrate on school or do other things when you lack a sufficient amount of healthy food.
But I didn’t know of all the existing programs in Vancouver that have been
designed to tackle these problems! There are already many solutions underway to
make low-income families in Vancouver more food secure:
“Food for Families” Food Bank Program- http://www.cityreach.org/program-foodbank.html
Community Kitchens Program which works in partnership with the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society.
As a coordinator of a student kitchen project myself, I think this is one of
the greatest innovations to increase food security in a community.
City of Vancouver Food Policy Webpages: http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/socialplanning/initiatives/foodpolicy/... Also, I didn’t know that the Vancouver Food Policy Council even existed! But now that
I do, I plan on attending one of their monthly meetings when I get home to
Vancouver in July. Their goals include:
Contribute in a meaningful way to the eradication of hunger in Vancouver.
Help ensure access by all Vancouverites to adequate, safe, nutritious and
culturally appropriate food in a dignified manner.
Encourage personal, business and government food practices that foster local
production, distribution and sale of food in a way that protects our natural
and human resources.
Encourage food-related activities that build community, foster civic
engagement, celebrate Vancouver’s multi-cultural food traditions and increase
public participation in the food system.
This week's evoke mission is one that I am personally very interested in and one which I plan on pursuing once I get home to Vancouver again.
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