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Huron County Food Bank Distribution Centre receives $20,000 grant

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The Huron County Food Bank Distribution Centre has received a $20,000 grant from Community Food Centres Canada’s Good Food Access Fund.

The grant will enable the foodbank to buy nutritional foods for its clients in Huron and Perth counties. Funding is provided in part by the federal government’s Local Food Infrastructure Fund as part of the Food Policy for Canada. The fund aims to strengthen food systems and facilitate access to safe and nutritious food for at-risk populations.

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“This grant will provide funds to strengthen our food system and will facilitate increased safe and nutritious food for at-risk populations in the communities that we serve,” said executive director Mary Ellen Zielman.

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Nick Saul, CEO of Community Food Centres Canada, said, “Food insecurity was already an urgent problem before the COVID-19 crisis, with one in eight Canadians

struggling to put food on the table. In a time of national crisis, it is in our nature as Canadians to do what we can for our most vulnerable neighbours. We are grateful to the government of Canada for their quick response, as well as the many corporate partners and generous donors who have stepped forward.”

He continued, “The Good Food Access Fund aims to make sure that as many people as possible will be able to get the food that they need. And while we must deal with the current circumstances, CFCC remains committed to advancing policy change that

addresses the underlying causes of food insecurity and poverty in Canada. We can’t forget that structural inequity is at the core of so many of the challenges that Canadians face, a fact which painfully confronts us when an emergency like this occurs.”

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