Food Bank Usage Up 400% at Toronto Food Bank, Rising Quick in Other Cities

Hey everyone – I recently read an article about increased food bank usage across Ontario and while I know this has been an issue over the past few years, I never realized how bad things actually were.Some eye opening stats I picked up on:GTAThe Daily Bread Food Bank: (Toronto) reported a total of 270,000 visits for the month – the highest in its history over four decades; this can be compared to a pre-pandemic number of ~65,000Feed Scarborough: +20% visitor growth from Dec 22 to Feb 23Outside the GTAThe Food Bank of Waterloo: 35% of people supported are under the age of 18Guelph Food Bank: Unique individuals served up 45% in 2022 vs 2021There are more stats in the article if you are interested (sourced below) but I think the bottom line is we have a major problem with food security as people are dealing with inflation, layoffs, high rent/mortgage payments etc.The article provides some good inital ideas if you have the means to help out (volunteering, donating, advocating for housing/income support etc.) But I wanted to post here for a couple of reasons:hopefully this helps raise awareness for whats going on and will encourage more people to help out if they canfacilitate a discussion about how we can further help / maybe some pople have unique ideas / maybe we can make a bigger impact with a larger group?Article Source: https://ift.tt/u4fCbZ6 via /r/toronto https://ift.tt/X0TRzV1