The Edmonton Food Bank Needs Your Help
Editor’s note: I apologize for my lack of posts so far this week. In my defense, Monday was a holiday, so I’ve really only missed one day this week. I’ll do my best not to miss anymore days this month.
This weekend was the Edmonton Heritage Festival (which was awesome, despite the rain). The price of admission to the Festival is a donation to the Edmonton Food Bank.
The Heritage Festival is the biggest campaign of the year for the Food Bank, but, due to poor attendance on Saturday, they fell short of their goal by 10,000 kilograms worth of food. This means that the Food Bank needs your help, Edmonton.
If you can spare a few boxes of Kraft Dinner, or some cans of soup or beans, please give. Cash donations are welcome, too. Ironically, the boom that we’re experiencing right now means that poverty is worse than ever. There are people living in this city who cannot afford to feed themselves, or their families.
We are the richest province in the country, and probably Alberta’s second richest city (Calgary probably has more money that Edmonton does). The fact that people are going hungry, often by no fault of their own, is unacceptable.
If you are able to donate, whether in the form of food or money, please do. I gave a donation at the Heritage Festival, but having heard how far behind their goal the Food Bank is, I think I’ll buy one of those $5 or $10 Food Bank bundles at Safeway, and drop it in the donation bin the next time I go buy some groceries.
Edmonton, I’m calling on all of you how are able to help out to do so. All it will take is for a few people–probably only 1,000–to donate $5 worth of food or cash each. It’s not a lot to give, but it will make a world of difference to those of us who can’t afford to eat.
Update: I was watching the news this evening, and heard the Sobeys has stepped up and donated $50,000 worth of food to the Edmonton Food Bank. That’s a good corporate citizen. Of course, that doesn’t mean that you can’t still help out with a donation of your own.s