December 10, 2024Stories
A nutritious meal makes a difference: Daniel’s story
So many of our neighbours are living just one unfortunate event away from hunger. Daniel was one of them.
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April 18, 2024Stories, Volunteers
Meet Tamara and Barry Gilhuly: Volunteers for The Food Bank
Volunteers are essential to our work at The Food Bank of Waterloo Region and have a crucial role in all aspects of our operations. From accepting community donations and sorting food to packing hampers and delivering food to over 120 programs and agencies within the Community Food Assistance Network, we couldn’t do our work without volunteers.
View Blog PostApril 17, 2024Stories, Volunteers
Meet Precious Aofolaju: Volunteer for The Food Bank
Volunteers are essential to our work at The Food Bank of Waterloo Region and have a crucial role in all aspects of our operations. From accepting community donations and sorting food to packing hampers and delivering food to over 120 programs and agencies within the Community Food Assistance Network, we couldn’t do our work without volunteers.
View Blog PostApril 16, 2024Stories, Volunteers
Meet Abdulmalik Nuhu: Volunteer for The Food Bank
Volunteers are essential to our work at The Food Bank of Waterloo Region and have a crucial role in all aspects of our operations. From accepting community donations and sorting food to packing hampers and delivering food to over 120 programs and agencies within the Community Food Assistance Network, we couldn’t do our work without volunteers.
View Blog PostApril 15, 2024Stories, Volunteers
Meet Diego Vargas-Avila: Volunteer for The Food Bank
Volunteers are essential to our work at The Food Bank of Waterloo Region and have a crucial role in all aspects of our operations. From accepting community donations and sorting food to packing hampers and delivering food to the 120+ programs and agencies within the Community Food Assistance Network, we couldn’t do our work without volunteers.
View Blog PostSeptember 28, 2023Awareness, Stories
The Faces of Hunger: Sydney’s story
Sydney grew up in a food-insecure household and as a young child she discovered that her family wasn’t alone as others in her community also faced food insecurity.
View Blog PostSeptember 21, 2023Awareness, Stories, Agencies
The Faces of Hunger: Nicole’s story
Nicole Pereira is the program manager at Supportive Housing of Waterloo, one of 120 community programs and agency partners with the Community Food Assistance Network that receives food support from The Food Bank of Waterloo Region. She describes the work she does as incredibly rewarding.
View Blog PostSeptember 21, 2023Awareness, Stories
The Faces of Hunger: Richard’s story
Through his former work as a youth social worker, Richard Mitchell thought he was aware of the many resources available in the community. But it wasn’t until he found himself in need of emergency food assistance that he realized how much help the Community Food Assistance Network really offers.
View Blog PostSeptember 21, 2023Awareness, Stories, Agencies
The Faces of Hunger: Paulette’s story
Paulette Williams knows what it is like to be a single parent and needing the help of a food assistance program to feed her kids. That experience is one of the reasons she volunteers at Kingdom Community International, overseeing the volunteers and organizing the distribution of food provided by The Food Bank of Waterloo Region.
View Blog PostSeptember 21, 2023Awareness, Stories
The Faces of Hunger: Wendy’s story
Hunger can happen to anyone at any time. For Wendy Gale, it happened when she retired.
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