Winnipeg Harvest Quick Facts

• Winnipeg Harvest provides emergency food assistance to over 40,000 people a month. This is nearly equivalent to the size of Brandon, Manitoba - Manitoba's second largest city.
• Winnipeg Harvest distributes food to over 320 agencies across Manitoba. This includes: food banks, soup kitchens, daycares, drop-in centres, schools, etc.
• 47% of people receiving food from Winnipeg Harvest are children.
• In 2008, Winnipeg Harvest moved almost 10 million pounds of food throughout Manitoba.
• 50% of Winnipeg Harvest volunteers are people who use food banks.
• 33% of families experiencing hunger are dual wage-earner families. They are the working poor.

No one chooses to be poor, hungry, or in crisis.
Please donate to Winnipeg Harvest.

Share Your Thanks Fall Food Drive

The Winnipeg Free Press generously distributed 122,000 "Share Your Thanks" brown grocery bags last month to Winnipeg area homes so they could be filled with groceries for those Winnipeg Harvest shares food with.
Volunteers and staff will gather to help spread the generosity of Manitobans, by sorting the "Share your Thanks" bags.

The bags will help Winnipeg Harvest serve growing needs:

• The number of students (aged 6-18) needing food bank assistance went up by nearly 24% over the last year. 
• Winnipeg Harvest also is sharing food with more EI Recipients (an 84% increase), those with no income (a 24% increase) and the working poor (a 17% increase) than this time last year.

Overall, the number of people needing Winnipeg Harvest's services is up 21% from the same period one year ago. We need the public's help more than ever to help fight hunger in Manitoba.

We invite the public media to join us:
Saturday, October 10th at 10:30am, at the Winnipeg Harvest warehouse, 1085 Winnipeg Ave.

Student Usage of Food Banks

New numbers have been released from the press conference at Sisler High School on September 28, 2009.

The number of students ages 6-18 who require the use of food banks has gone up by a whopping 23.8% :

• September 2008 - over 12 000 students aged 6-18 used the food bank.
• September 2009 - a year later - over 15 000 students aged 6-18 using the food bank.

There are twenty-two school food programs supported by Winnipeg Harvest

There are food banks in seven universities and colleges including: Univeristy of Manitoba, University of WInnipeg, Red River College, Yellowquill College, Winnipeg Adult Education Cetnre, Horizon Learning Centre and Aboriginal Community Campus.

Winnipeg Harvest needs your continued support to help fight hunger in Manitoba!