Red Deer Food Bank Society

By rdnewsNOW staff

Community Assistance

Local food drive ends Christmas Eve

Dec 24, 2019 | 7:29 AM

Today marks the final day of a local food drive to help those less fortunate in our community.

The Holiday Food Drive allows local shoppers to stop by the Real Canadian Superstore, Real Canadian Wholesale Club or Your Independent Grocer, to purchase nonperishable food items for donation to the Red Deer Food Bank Society.

Food Banks Canada’s Hunger Count 2019 Report shows that in Alberta, children make up close to 40 per cent of those using the services of food banks (39.3 per cent). Almost one in eight food bank clients is working but unable to make ends meet.

“As the winter closes in and especially leading up to the holidays, there are many stresses on a household budget,” says Alice Kolisnyk from Red Deer Food Bank Society, in a release. “Sometimes there just isn’t enough money for everything. The Real Canadian Superstore holiday campaign comes at a perfect time each year to help make the holidays brighter for everyone, and to help local food banks, and our clients, get through the long months ahead.”

Food Drive officials say donations of nutritious, non-perishable food items as well as cash are being accepted.

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Last year during the Holiday Food Drive, residents of Alberta donated thousands of pounds of non-perishable food to local food banks across the province.