A big thank you to our friends at Access Storage for allowing us to make use of storage facilities for Feed Ontario and Food Banks Canada hampers during the crisis here and to Ron, Celeste and their team at Access for being dedicated volunteer drivers as well! It wasn’t long ago we were worried about storage space and they came through for us thanks to the media and our City getting the word out about our need for space in Burlington. We want everyone to know with the long weekend ahead and the beginning of school that we have always maintained a kids snack pack component to our supplies to families with school-aged kids.

For whatever reason, our food bank in Burlington has a higher percentage of kids in those needing our assistance than the rest of Ontario on average. For the rest of the province 33% of their clients are children 17 and under, while here in Burlington we are close to 40%. We send 2 healthy snacks and a juice box per day for each child in a family along with their food request. We hope it all goes well and safely.

Also we want to thank other charities such as Halton Food for Kids and Halton Food for Thought as they try to support kids just as much as we do. You should know that kids here in Burlington are being well looked after through the wonderful people at these organizations.