The word “crisis” comes up quickly when speaking with those who run food banks across Canada.
“This is affecting middle class people now,” he said, adding that working people now make up about 40 per cent of his clientele. They made up about five per cent before the pandemic. “I think the lower-middle class just dropped down to poverty. I think if you were at that lower rung and you were already getting by payday to payday, well, now you’re not.”
However, the senior residents of Richmond, outside Vancouver, said they still struggle to make ends meet as grocery costs skyrocket. Lendaza said she and her husband turned to the food bank near their home to keep their heads above water. Eidbobo relies on government assistance to make ends meet, saying her health conditions prevent her from working. She lives a few minutes away from her food bank, on the fourth floor of a building with no elevators, and said food bank staff and volunteers sometimes help her carry food up to her apartment.
“The Regina Food Bank, like all food banks in Canada, was intended to be temporary, a response to high inflation and high costs, which sounds familiar these days,” Froh said in an interview. “Sadly, 40 years later, demand for food bank services across Canada continues to go up.”Article content Even as the organization helps more people, he said there are thousands more who continue to come home to empty tables.
Welcome Hall Mission’s food bank in Montreal is also reporting increased demand this year, said Sam Watts, the mission’s executive director. He said many new clients are people who rely on the service to cover their needs toward the end of the month, after their paycheque runs out. Providing an average of 1,035 people a month and more than 12,000 per year with food is already a difficult task, but Mahaffy said the independently run downtown Ottawa food bank is now seeing a 40 per cent annual increase in the number of people who access its services.
“Our budget is completely dependent on people making donations,” she said, adding that she worries it’s getting tougher and tougher for people to find money to contribute.
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