There's more demand from a variety of marginalized populations as well as people in two-household incomes, according to the executive director of Food Banks BC.
As British Columbians face rising food prices and turn to their local food banks for support, the B.C. government announced $15 million in funding for Food Banks BC today .
Dan Huang-Taylor, executive director of Food Banks BC, said food banks have been under "significant strain" since 2019. He attributed much of the rise in food bank use to inflation and the rising cost of living, adding that numbers increased in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was then compounded as a result of climate events.
Its Burnaby warehouse distributed about nine million pounds of food last year, he told the NOW, with up to 900 clients each month in the last year.
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