Charity - from the horses own mouth

From the horses mouth

Food Banks Canada numbers show that 882,000 people accessed food banks across the country last year, an all-time high. More troubling, 11 per cent of those people used the service for the first time.

“It’s mopping the floor instead of fixing the roof,” says Wilmot, a charity worker for Faith in Action in Victoria.

 Linda Geggie of the Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable says food banks are a “Band-Aid solution”