The Ancaster Community Services Annual Food Drive was held on Saturday Feb 21 and a total of $5000 in cash and 79,000 pounds of food was raised!
Our Soroptimist sisters were there with their shirts on and hands ready to help. Thank you to SNAP for including a picture of us!
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- SI-DAF donated $400 to the Ancaster Community Services
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- Barb, Pauline & Nancy working hard
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- The ladies of SI-DAF working on one of many assembly-lines at St John’s
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- Pauline and Nancy gather food to be sorted
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- The volume of donations was very impressive!
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- Sandy (causing trouble as usual)
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- Program Chair Nancy, President Barb and Treasurer Sandy with the Ancaster Community Services representitive, Lisa Wert, and Tom Ippolito,Chair of the Ancaster Food Drive Committee
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- SI DAF club members were there to make sure that Jim Kay, Chief of Emergency Services and David Sweet MP for Ancaster, Dundas, Flamborough, Westdale had lots to keep them busy
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- Photo courtesy of SNAP Hamilton
Each aisle was divided into basic categories: vegetables, soup, dry pasta, canned pasta, pasta sauce, macaroni & cheese (aka KD), beans in sauce, fruit, juice, milk, toiletries, baby food, cookies & crackers (and desserts), cakes & pudding (and baking supplies), condiments, meats & fish. Never had any of us seen such a well organized, all-hands event!
“It is always a very humbling experience to see how a community can come together and give so generously so that the most disadvantaged in our midst can have food on their tables”, said Pauline – a member of SI-DAF and the Ancaster Lions Club.
According to a recent article, over the past five years, the cost of a monthly Nutritious Food Basket for a family of four (based on Canada’s Food Guide) has increased by 14.2%. According to the Hamilton Public Health Services report entitled ““The Cost of Basic Nutritious Food”, the average limited-income family has to choose “between eating well and paying the rent to survive.”
For more information about how you can get involved or make a donation to the Ancaster Community Services, call 905-648- 6675. Items currently in high demand include:
- pasta
- canned salmon and tuna
- stews
- soups
- and canned vegetables