@noel.semple7 Front Porch Food Drive!
♬ original sound – Noel Semple
Transcript:
In places like Central Etobicoke, there’s too many folks don’t have enough to eat, but there’s also a lot of folks who have a little bit more than they need and are generously willing to donate. Food banks, everyone knows, are that link between people who can donate and people who need food to have food security for their families.
Food banks are terrific. Everyone should think about donating to their local food bank. But physically doing the logistics of donating food to a food bank is tough for some people. It can be complicated to remember to fill your bags with food and take them to the drop-off spot an it might also be kind of a physical strain for people to carry a lot of cans of food somewhere if they’ve got them to donate.
So that’s where the Front Porch Food Drive comes in, and this is something we’ve done at my church here, St. George’s on the Hill Anglican, for the past few years, where we go around our neighborhood, and we’ve distributed this year seven hundred and fifty bags with flyers asking neighbors to donate, fill the bags with food.
And today, Mother’s Day afternoon, we drive around the neighborhood, picking up the stuff that’s been left on porches and bringing it. Our target this year is two thousand items. We’ve got incredible volunteers like Ruth in this picture, who’s bringing this bag of food from a house, and in this picture, we’ve got James and Carol, who filled their trunk and their backseat with food. And, we also have Malcolm. Malcolm, what did, what did you get up to today?
Malcolm: Picked up bags.
Noel: Okay. That’s right. So we got [laughs] everyone pitching in, and we are now going to head back down to the basement and see what the scene looks like down there. And here’s the sorting room where everything gets categorized as protein, fruit and veg, or carbohydrate, and placed on these tables, and we keep track of everything that comes in.
All right, so we’re done sorting, and we’ve got five hundred and fourteen protein items and five hundred and eighty carbs and three hundred and thirty-six fruit and veg and three hundred and eighty-two miscellaneous for a grand total of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two non-perishable food items for the St. James food basket, and had a great time doing it.