It could happen to any one of us . . . food insecurity . . . "the condition of not having access to sufficient food or food of adequate quality to meet one's basic needs. It sounds like it shouldn't happen in a G7 country like Canada, but with higher interest rates impacting mortgages and car loans, and the cost of food rising, it's hard for many people to make ends meet.
As a local service club, Rotary Cambridge Sunset wanted to hear firsthand from Cambridge Food Bank Executive Director Dianne McLeod and invited her to join us at our meeting.
She shared that a recent 2022 Hunger Report showed that even people who are employed full time, as the primary income in a household, make up 8.5 per cent of food bank users. A further 10.8 per cent are employed part time.