Second Harvest Food Rescue offers more than $4.5 million to community groups who feed Canadians
TORONTO, ON. — Canadian homes throw away $1,766 worth of food every year. The dollar value of unused food thrown out by businesses every year, is in the millions of dollars.
As the COVID-19 pandemic deepens, the situation has left many unprecedented number of Canadians are worrying for the first time about how they will afford to put food on the table.
With that in mind, Canada’s largest food rescue organization,
Second Harvest, is rolling out $4.5 million in new funding to community groups who are feeding vulnerable Canadians during this crisis.