Charlottetown residents hosting food drive for World Hunger Day
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — A gaggle of Charlottetown residents is internet hosting a meals drive to inventory the P.E.I. Group Fridge as a part of World Starvation Day on Might 28.
In a information launch, Group Fridge volunteer Eleanor Kielly-Wedlake mentioned the meals drive will probably be held at 418 Queen St. From 11 a.m. till 6 p.m.
Donated gadgets like canned items, dry non-perishable meals gadgets, child merchandise, private hygiene gadgets and masks will probably be used to maintain the Group Fridge stocked.
Objects like home made meals, open or expired items or toys and garments can’t be accepted.
The meals drive was scheduled on World Starvation Day to deliver extra consideration to the rising price of meals insecurity throughout the Island.
Kielly-Wedlake added that as of 2018, 14 per cent of Islanders expertise some type of meals insecurity.
Meals drive organizers imagine the reason for native meals insecurity to be the rising value of residing, together with groceries and COVID-19-associated job insecurity.
The Group Fridge and their meals drive as mutual help tasks which are created by the neighborhood, for the neighborhood, moderately than by a non-profit or authorities program which will deny help to some people by means-testing, described organizers.
“The Group Fridge affords direct help to all Islanders,” mentioned Kielly-Wedlake. “No questions requested, no necessities to be met. Meals safety is a human proper that folks ought to have dignified and rapid entry to.”
The organizers imagine mutual help tasks are a solution to alleviate meals insecurity by offering meals, no questions requested.
