Case Study: The Stop Community Food Centres Canada

“Feeding America is a non-profit organization created by John Van Hengel in the 1960’s” ("U.S. Hunger Relief Charity | Feeding America®," 2015). He was a retired business man who would volunteer at a local soup kitchen to feed the hungry| (Feeding America®," 2015). “He came upon the idea after a women was desperately looking for food to feed her children”, “she suggested to him there should be a place to store unwanted food instead of throwing it out for trash so the hungry can go and pick up the unwanted food”| (Feeding America®," 2015). Feeding America does not sell products it provides services. It’s an organization which provides the less fortunate and low-income families with free food through nationwide food banks across America| (Feeding America®," 2015). Van Hengel created his first establishment in Phoenix Arizona, and named it Saint Mary’s Food Bank| (Feeding America®," 2015). After several years Van Hengel along with his team the organization “distributed over 275,000 pounds of food to those in need”| (Feeding America®," 2015). In “1977, 18 cities began establishing food banks to serve those in need”| (Feeding America®," 2015). In “1979, the Second Harvest was created, which was later called America’s Second Harvest the Nation’s Food Bank Network” | (Feeding America®," 2015). In “2008. it became known as Feeding America, now our nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization” | (Feeding America®," 2015). “There are over 200 regional food banks located across

Founded in 1985, Second Harvest is the largest food rescue organization in Canada. With their vision “No Waste. No Hunger”, this organization aims at rescuing and delivering fresh, surplus food to people experiencing hunger (Second Harvest, n.d). Second Harvest rescues food from 600 food donors, including restaurants, supermarkets, food warehouses, hotels and other small organizations. Each morning, 10 refrigerated trucks leave the warehouse and deliver food to over 253 social service agencies around the GTA and 15 food hubs across Ontario, such as kitchens, shelters, food banks, community centers and drop-in centers. These agencies cater to marginalized populations who are unable to buy their own food, including homeless people, young

Acquiring life’s necessities for many Canadians is as simple as going to the grocery store. For most Northern Aboriginal Canadian communities, who face overwhelmingly high food prices this is not the case. The inability to engage in healthy eating practices for both financial and availability reasons is hypothesized to have contributed to the higher incidence of diet related diseases among this demographic. With food insecurity on the rise, policy reform is essential. Reform must consider both traditional and market foods, as well as minimize all current barriers to food attainment. Urgency is required for a sustainable solution to this problem.

Despite Canada’s many resources and services that can help its citizens live healthy lives those living in remote northern communities have difficulties accessing this help. To understand why this population experiences difficulties accessing nutritious food it is useful to identify and

On July 23, 2015, I applied for food assistance. As you would be able to find out from the attached application, you would find out that I stated clearly in my application that both of my children were in a 50/50 timesharing arrangement (including 50/50 overnights). See attached application “Frank-07-23-2015,” page 15 and Court order, “Agree Final Judgment July 14 2015.”

Food security has three core components. These are food availability, accessibility and use of food (FAO, 2015, Welsh, 1998). 12.5% of household in Canada are suffering from food insecurity (Boddy and Roblin, 2017). Food insecurity is higher in immigrants compare to the Canadians (Health Canada, 2012, Welsh, 1998, Toronto Food Policy Council, 2013). Moreover, the food desert is another factor of food security where there is a lack of access to the food stores, fruit, and vegetables (Center for Disease control, 2012). Ethnic vegetables play an important role in the food security and nutrition of the South Asian immigrants (Quadir and Danesh,

Over the last few decades, as the Canadian government began to cut programs and the social welfare system began to unravel. The non-profit sector, including food banks, took over the responsibilities that were provided to citizens through the government-sponsored social programs (Anheier, 2005, p.114). Food banks are symptoms of the breakdown of the social consensus developed over 35 years ago (Riches, 1986, p. 62-63). This gave a negative outlook on the Canadian government. The government's responsibility is to ensure that basic human needs are provided, especially in a developed country like Canada. The lack of government help made citizens renew their interest in organizations within the social economy that helped fill the missing service gaps.

Their many issue's that I'm trying to solve in the community. One of the more important issues to me is Hunger. Their are so many people who have to go to shelters, Food Banks & Local Community centers for food.Which is why I'll be volunteering at one of those establishments . In the most recent “Hunger in America 2010” study by Feeding Amer­ica, the Commonwealth of Virginia’s food banks served 42% children. Which shows how effective they are for so many kids who need food.

The government provides food subsidies through the Commodity Supplemental Food Program - CSFP, for the elderly who are over 60 years of age and who are low income recipients in need of food to last them throughout the month. The food subsidies of fruit and vegetable intake protects against various common chronic diseases and protects those individuals who have low income that are at risk for poor dietary quality and for low consumption of fruits and vegetables (Herman, Harrison, & Afifi, 2008, p. 98.).

The Houston Food Bank (HFB), their mission, “leading the fight against hunger” their vision is “food access for all”. The Houston food bank is a member of the nations largest non-governmental, domestic hunger relief organization Feeding America. In the fiscal year of 2013-2014, HFB distributed 59 million nutritious meal food and other necessities.” The vision for the future is to expand services to the community to 100,000,000 nutritious meals by 2018” (HFB, 2014).

After analysis the mission of the Second Harvest Heartland I could say that this Nonprofit organization has a clear statement of who they are and what they want to do to fight hunger and provide a healthier lifestyle to families along with educating them on nutrition issues. They know there is hunger everywhere around us. Working families, children, senior or even youths recently graduated are living with hunger every day of their life due to the insufficiency of money.

Have you ever wondered that some things around the state aren’t as good as you think they are? Did you know that 17% of the state is homeless and 15% of those people are kids? Wow, now look again! The Cratchit family lives in Victorian ,London. They are in a time where they are in poverty, and Harvest Hope Food Bank could help with that, they could provide food and not just that, healthy food. Harvest hope Food Bank can and will help benefit the Cratchit family because, they can provide healthy food.

Commercialization of food industry makes situation worse ever and diminish the outport farming. The social value system to supplementary farming was drastically affected and reduced since late nineties. Though few nonprofit and voluntary initiatives are always trying to develop the food system to bring food sovereignty, but their initiatives merely became a continuous process due to lack of volunteers, good partnerships and collaborations, inadequate financing and lack of institutional education. In this situation community garden as an emerging initiative can facilitate food sovereignty in small scale and can be a great tool to create a social movement towards food sovereignty. In order to do so, community garden initiators need policy and financial supports as well as innovative in communication and

The Canadian Food Guide has changed over time due to fit the needs of Canadians as more scientific research and information has been found about nutrition and how to achieve overall health. For example in 1982, the Canadian Food Guide implemented a statement which encouraged Canadians to limit fat, sugar, salt and alcohol as a method to combat diet-related diseases (Canada, n.d). The food guide has also been altered over history to incorporate individuals with different diets based on culture, religion, and preferences. This was demonstrated in 1977, where they replaced ‘meat and fish’ to ‘meat and alternates’ to be inclusive

Predicated in Silicon Valley, Second Harvest Victuals Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties is one of the most sizably voluminous aliment banks in the nation. Currently providing victuals to more than one quarter of a million people every month, Second Harvest is a trusted community-predicated organization that was founded in 1974. Despite the immense wealth in Silicon Valley, and partly due to the high cost of living, hunger and malnutrition are pervasive. The Aliment Bank distributes nutritious pabulum, including more fresh engender than any other pabulum bank in the country, through a network of over 320 nonprofit partners at more than 850 sites. Second Harvest is pursuing innovative efforts to increment access to pabulum resources,