Food Bank of Waterloo Region launch Spring Food Drive

Spring has sprung and so has the Food Bank of Waterloo Region spring food drive!

Starting today, residents will find food drive bags included in their newspapers.

Wendi Campbell, Executive Director of The Food Bank says this year they’ve turned to social media to help deliver their message.

“We’ve had a lot of people who have learned more about hunger and poverty in our community because of social media so we thought social media would be a great way to spread the word really quickly to remind people it is a giving time of year. The food drive bags are out and about and there is a number of food drives happening in the community. Businesses, churches, schools, and community organizations are all doing small food drives to help us out.”

She adds about 1 in 20 residents in our region need help putting food on their plates.

This year they are encouraging everyone to tweet photos of their food drive bags using #FillMeUp.

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