Recent and wholesome meals assist fill the baskets at The Meals Financial institution of Waterloo Area
Crates and cartons clang and rattle. Plastic hampers clack as they’re stacked collectively. Carts laden with meals roll to-and-fro as tow-motors and forklifts whine and clunk as they set down heavy skids of containers.
Final 12 months, The Meals Financial institution of Waterloo Area acquired and distributed over 6.3 million kilos of meals to their Neighborhood Meals-Help Community and their provincial companions.
To try this, it required 2,600 volunteers throughout the group, together with Kitchener resident Andy McKay.
McKay says his twice weekly volunteer hours within the meals financial institution warehouse have him constructing orders for these companions.
He additionally