food bank Archives | City Share Canada https://citysharecanada.ca/initiative-tag/food-bank/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 23:38:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://citysharecanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/favicon.png food bank Archives | City Share Canada https://citysharecanada.ca/initiative-tag/food-bank/ 32 32 Canada’s libraries step up to help vulnerable people during pandemic https://citysharecanada.ca/initiative/canadas-libraries-step-up-to-help-vulnerable-people-during-pandemic/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 23:38:56 +0000 https://citysharecanada.ca/?post_type=initiative&p=1420 In Toronto, nine TPL branches have been converted into food distribution centers in the past few weeks, in partnership with three local food banks. In Montreal the Grande Bibliothèque, the largest library in Quebec has been transformed into a daytime respite space for homeless people.

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]]> In Toronto, nine TPL branches have been converted into food distribution centers in the past few weeks, in partnership with three local food banks. In Montreal the Grande Bibliothèque, the largest library in Quebec has been transformed into a daytime respite space for homeless people.

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]]> Toronto’s Largest Food Bank to Open Pop-Up Locations – in closed libraries & parking lots https://citysharecanada.ca/initiative/torontos-largest-food-bank-to-open-pop-up-locations-in-closed-libraries-parking-lots/ Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:05:30 +0000 https://citysharecanada.ca/?post_type=initiative&p=770 Since the COVID-19 outbreak took hold of Toronto there’s been 20 percent growth in the number of clients making use of Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank over a span of the last two weeks. The pressure to provide food to new clients coupled with required social distancing has forced the food bank to change its […]

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]]> Since the COVID-19 outbreak took hold of Toronto there’s been 20 percent growth in the number of clients making use of Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank over a span of the last two weeks. The pressure to provide food to new clients coupled with required social distancing has forced the food bank to change its operations in a dramatic way. They’ve partnered with GlobalMedic and set up a medical hospital mobile field tent in the food bank’s parking lot. Now the food comes out on a conveyor belt from inside the tent.

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]]> Feed Ontario calls for donations of food and cash https://citysharecanada.ca/initiative/feed-ontario-calls-for-donations-of-food-and-cash/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:39:38 +0000 https://citysharecanada.ca/?post_type=initiative&p=289 Feed Ontario calls for donations of food, along with funds to the COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund.

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