With levels of food insecurity rising across the country, we all need to pitch in to help our neighbours in need.
In May, 1,150 volunteers came together to help assemble some of the 200,000 nutritious, child-friendly #AfterTheBellProgram packs that will be distributed to 215 communities across Canada this summer.
Thank you to our corporate sponsors and their generous employees for coming out and helping make this program possible.
To learn more about After the Bell and how you can help us #EndChildHunger, please visit https://lnkd.in/e6RJYkFD
Étant donné que les niveaux d’insécurité alimentaire atteignent des sommets partout au pays, nous devons tous nous impliquer pour aider nos voisins dans le besoin.
Au mois de mai, 1 150 bénévoles se sont réunis pour préparer un grand nombre des 200 000 sacs de denrées nutritives et adaptées aux enfants du programme #AprèsLaCloche qui seront distribués dans 215 communautés partout au Canada cet été.
Merci à nos entreprises commanditaires et à leurs généreux employés de répondre présent et de rendre ce programme possible.
Pour en savoir plus sur le programme Après la cloche et sur la façon dont vous pouvez nous aider à #MettreFinÀLaFaim chez les enfants, consultez le site https://lnkd.in/gahFUeqN
Kids should be thinking about having fun with their friends, not worrying about where their next meal comes from. And so Food Banks Canada started after the bell to make sure that kids had access to child friendly, nutritious, healthy food during the summer months. After the Bell parking days when hundreds of volunteers come together to show their commitment to ending child hunger and it's a really fun filled, inspiring event. Volunteers are assigned at stations where they pack up the After the Bell packs, put them in boxes and get them ready to ship right across the country. Each healthy food pack contains child friendly, nutritious snacks such as crackers, seed, butter, oatmeal. Granola bars, cheese dippers, fruit bars, milk, cereal, applesauce and sunflower seeds. The packs are then sent to the local food banks thanks to our fresh food sponsors, Subway Canada. The food banks receive a grant to supplement the packs with fresh food items such as apples, sugar snap peas, cheese and yogurt. Subway participates in the After the Bell program through our Never Missed Lunch program. We are proud to provide funding to Food Banks Canada so that participating local food banks can add. Fresh food items like fruit and vegetables to the After the Bell food packs. Canadians have come to know Subway for our fresh veggies, so it makes sense that we try to help families across the country access produce. The Air Canada Foundation donates funds to After the Belt to help purchase food and kits and volunteers and Air Canada Cargo actually moves the kits on our airplanes throughout our network. And we target areas that are difficult to reach by either road or by rail. Hunger isn't visible, so corporations really have to step up to help provide food. Everyone struggling these days. We started the collaboration with Food Banks Canada last year. This year we decided to contribute even more what we enjoyed the most as a team. I think it's the energy. Everybody is so pumped up. Everyone wants to collaborate and there's this synergy between everyone to to make things happen, to pack those bag and to do those pallets. Any companies should be part of that. I'm proud to work for a company that supports this. Because we've been involved since 2019, the reason why Nessie Canada became involved initially was because we were wanting to make a real difference in our communities, where we live and work. For any of the sponsors that are here today and especially for Nestle Canada, the opportunity to put together these snack packs and help fill this gap during summer months, it's something that everybody's proud of. Due to job loss, rising costs of rent, food, we're seeing more and more families in the food. So programs like After the Bell are significant for us. Right now we are delivering 200,000 packs to 215 communities from coast to coast to coast, in every province and territory. To our financial sponsors, our volunteers, our in kind supporters, everyone, thank you so much for your support and thanks for making sure that kids have the summer they deserve.
