Monday, April 02, 2007

Update from Kawartha Food Share

Kawartha Food Share is pleased to welcome five new Member Agencies who are working to help fight hunger in Peterborough. These new member are:
- Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Peterborough
- Canadian Mental Health Association
- Peterborough Community Chaplaincy
- Peterborough Housing Corporation (30 Alexander Avenue)
- St. Johns Anglican Church

Each of these agencies are either creating a new or bolstering an existing food program to help clients who are going hungry. Kawartha Food Share is a distribution warehouse that now provides 30 agencies in the City and County of Peterborough with emergency food supplies. In 2006, our Member Agencies provided food to about 6,500 people each month, with 57% of these being adults and 43% being children. In 2006 we distributed over 400,000 items of food. The generous support of local residents, businesses and agencies such as the United Way enables us to help feed the hungry in Peterborough.

For further information please contact:

Chris Kawalec,
Office Manager
Kawartha Food Share
665 Neal Drive, P.O. Box 1413
Peterborough ON K9J 7H6
ph: 705.745.5377 fx: 705.745.7908
www.kawarthafoodshare.com

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