Food4Kids provides packages of healthy food for children up to 14 years with limited or no access to food each weekend. The food packages are assembled by volunteers and delivered to schools each Friday to ensure children have nourishment over the weekend.
There are over 1500 children in Niagara struggling through each weekend without enough food. Rotarians passed out lists of most needed items to create these packages to customers as they entered each of the two No Frills stores on Friday.
Pictured above are Food4Kids Committee Chair Marlene Mader and Rotarian Bryan Pett on-site at Food Basics. Pictured below are overflowing tables.
The Rotary Club of St. Catharines Lakeshore recently held a Food Drive on Friday, October 22 as a District Conference service project to assist the Food4Kids Niagara Program. Club members staffed collection bins at two No Frills stores in St. Catharines from 1 to 5 p.m. The community responded by donating almost $5700 in requested food items and an additional $1050 in monetary donations. The club sends a special shout-out to St. Catharines South for their $1600 value food donation to the drive!