Sai Dham Food Bank will set up 5 free food markets across the GTA which will include lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers — which they say will be enough for 12 lbs of vegetables for at least 5,000 people.
Sai Dham Food Bank will set up five free food markets across the GTA that will include lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers — enough for 12 pounds of vegetables each for at least 5,000 people. While many charities across the Greater Toronto Area are struggling to meet the soaring demand for food, one organization has a unique challenge at hand — how to distribute surplus vegetables to thousands of people in the region this week.
"The grocery prices are going up and people are hardly able to afford the rents. So we have seen that, as compared to last year, more people are shifting towards getting services from organizations like us," Sulabh Mahajan said.found that usage had reached its highest level since the survey started in 1989.
Sulabh Mahajan, administrator at Sai Dham Food Bank, says with people struggling to pay for rent and groceries, organizations like his are seeing growing demand for food programs.
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