The face of hunger may surprise you.
The hungry today are likely to be hard working families, single parents with children or seniors on fixed incomes. Many are new to food banks or social agencies; they never expected to face the difficult choice of either paying for housing or medicine or buying food to eat.
The hungry today are likely to be hard working families, single parents with children or seniors on fixed incomes. Many are new to food banks or social agencies; they never expected to face the difficult choice of either paying for housing or medicine or buying food to eat.
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up"
- John Andrew Holmes
Donate via secure Food Banks BC website.
Food for Thought.
What is important to remember is that the Westside Community Food Bank is not a small group of individuals fighting food disparity by ourselves. Rather, there is a vast web of threads connecting people, be they donors, volunteers, supporters or advocates.
Every time you lend your support to the Food Bank, you become part of that web. If we can connect enough of those threads together, we can create a net that will support our neighbours, who, like all of us, occasionally need a helping hand.
What is important to remember is that the Westside Community Food Bank is not a small group of individuals fighting food disparity by ourselves. Rather, there is a vast web of threads connecting people, be they donors, volunteers, supporters or advocates.
Every time you lend your support to the Food Bank, you become part of that web. If we can connect enough of those threads together, we can create a net that will support our neighbours, who, like all of us, occasionally need a helping hand.
To find us:
Click on this link for a Map.
Volunteers Needed:
"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others." - Barbara Bush
Click here to request an Application Form.
Click on this link for a Map.
Volunteers Needed:
"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others." - Barbara Bush
Click here to request an Application Form.
Drop off food items at Westbank SaveOn Foods, Superstore and Walmart.
The Westside Community Food Bank is a Member of:
The Westside Community Food Bank is open to serve clients every Wednesday evening from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM and every Thursday morning from 9:30 AM to 11:15 AM. New clients please bring proof of income (pay stubs, Soc. Service stubs etc) and proof of household expenses (rent receipt, utility bills, TV, phone bills etc). Also bring BC Medical Care Cards for each Family member as ID.
Show & Shine
On May 12 Big O Tire on Old OK Hwy will host this annual Fund Raising Event.
Fun games for the whole family!
On May 12 Big O Tire on Old OK Hwy will host this annual Fund Raising Event.
Fun games for the whole family!
