Who Is The Food Bank of Waterloo Region?

What Do We Do?

The Food Bank of Waterloo Region

• A community based, charitable organization

• Opened its doors in 1984• Serves Waterloo Region including the cities of Kitchener,

Waterloo, Cambridge and the surrounding Townships of Wilmot, Wellesley, Woolwich and North Dumfries

Mission

Through community partnerships, we

obtain and distribute emergency food

from our neighbours for our neighbours

Who We Assist

24,400 individuals served 47% are

children 29% of those served have a source of

employment income. Growing number of individuals on

disability and old age security pensions

3 million pounds in Waterloo Region(Over 75,000 tractor trailer loads of food)

Worth $6 million

We share food with 66 Member Agencies and Food Programs

How We Assist

Ways People Access Food

• We provide food to:– Shelters and hostels

• Women’s crisis shelter, mens’ hostels

– Meal programs• Hot meal at lunch or dinner Over 398,000 meals

– Hamper programs• Where families or individuals can pick up food for three to

five days. Each hamper is packed depending on the make-up of the family

– i.e. Milk for children 62,073 emergency food hampers

Member AgenciesEMERGENCY FOOD HAMPER PROGRAMS

COMMUNITY MEAL PROGRAMS

SHELTER AND RESIDENTAL PROGRAMS

OTHER COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Emergency Food Hamper Programs

• Catholic Family Counselling – National Child Benefit Outreach Worker Project (3)

• Glencairn Bridges Centre• House of Friendship Emergency Hamper Program• International Gospel Centre• Kitchener Church of God• K-W Counselling – National Child Benefit Outreach Worker Project (5)

• Langs Farm Village Association - National Child Benefit Outreach Worker Project

• Ray of Hope – Oasis Outreach• Reaching Our Outdoor Friends (ROOF)• Salvation Army Family Services (K-W)• Country Hills Missionary Church• First Methodist Church (Cambridge)• St. Aloysius Church Food Bank• Conestoga College Food Bank – Doon & Waterloo Campus

• Kingsdale Community Centre – National Child Benefit Outreach Worker Project

• Chandler Mowat – National Child Benefit Outreach Worker Project

• Christopher Champlain – National Child Benefit Outreach Worker Project

• St. Vincent de Paul Society– St. Anthony Daniel– St. Agnes– St. Anne’s– Blessed Sacrament– St. John’s– St. Joseph’s– St. Mark’s– St. Mary’s– St. Michaels– St. Teresa’s– Sacred Heart– Our Lady of Lourdes

• Wilmot Family Resource Ctr.• Woolwich Community Services

Community Meal Programs• St. John’s Community Kitchen

• Ray of Hope – Oasis Outreach

• Reaching Our Outdoor Friends (ROOF)

• St. Vincent de Paul Society (Sandwich Program)

• Living Word Community Church

• Anna Kaljas Residence

• Anselma House

• Argus Residences (2)

• Betty Thompson Youth Centre

• House of Friendship– Men’s Hostel– 174 King Street– Alcontrol – Kiwanis Residence– Cramer House

• YWCA– Lincoln Road Housing – Mary’s Place

• Marillac Place

Shelter & Residential Programs

• Christmas Bureau Hampers

• School Breakfast Programs

• Out of the Cold Programs (K-W)

• Langs Farm Village Association – Youth & Teen Centre

• Centreville Chicopee – Youth Outreach

• K-W Counselling – STEAM Program

• Mayfair Community Room

• St. Jacobs Family Support Centre

• Brain Injury Association

Other Programs

Our Role?

• Acquire and Share Food

– Food Donations from residents • Food drives, grocery stores, special events

– Food Donations from the food industry• Food processors, retail – perishable program

$ Donations to help us pick up, sort, store and share with those in need

Our Food Bank Community

66 Member Agencies and Food Programs across the Region

Canadian Association of Food Banks (CAFB)

Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB)

The Food Bank of Waterloo Region

Our Community

Food Donations from Residents

20% of donations come from our community

Food Industry Donations

80% of donations come from corporate donors

2nd Helping Perishable Food Recovery Program

Financial Donations

The Food Bank of Waterloo Region

12 staff and 1,600 volunteers

30,000 square foot warehouse facility

20 cubic foot freezer/cooler

Fleet of 5 trucks

Channel our community’s energy so no one goes hungry.

$1 Donated = $8 Emergency Food Shared