what is winnipeg harvest ?
•Manitoba consistently has the highest rate of child food bank use in Canada.
•Winnipeg Harvest currently helps to feed more than 60,000 each month.
•Just over nine percent of Harvest clients rely on income from a pension.
•Nearly 27,000 of Harvests monthly clients are children.
•More than 50% Harvest volunteers are, or have been, food bank users.
•1/3 of families experiencing hunger are dual wage-earner families, ie: the working poor.
•Winnipeg Harvest makes almost 500 deliveries a month.
•Winnipeg Harvest provides emergency food assistance to over 60,000 + people a month across Manitoba. Therefore, Winnipeg Harvest clients are Manitoba’s second-largest city.
•Approximately 45% of our clients are children, and Manitoba is consistently the #1 province for food bank use.
•Winnipeg Harvest has 12 trucks on the road, six days a week. We have three cargo vans, six cube vans, and two five-tons.
http://winnipegharvest.org/