GIVE HOPE
THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.
Record numbers of families are struggling to afford food as the holidays approach. You can ensure food banks across Canada are ready to help our neighbours experiencing food insecurity. Your gift today can help food banks provide nutritious food and vital support from coast to coast to coast to their communities.
The holidays should be a time of joy, not hunger.
You can fill tables coast to coast to coast with nutritious food.
Together, we can relieve and prevent food insecurity nationwide.
Offer dignity and peace of mind today and hope for the future.
72%
of food bank clients live
in market rent housing
18%
of people accessing food
banks report employment as
their primary income
32.5%
of food bank clients
are children
“People in the community would put my mom’s name in at the food bank, and then they would just show up with the hamper. It was a small community. And my mom knew she needed help. So, she took it. I don’t think that there was any negative feeling. I think it was true relief.”
~ Jeret Holt, former food bank client
Your gift today will help someone like Jeret Holt. Thirty years later, he still remembers how a hamper from his local food bank brightened the holiday season for his family.
WHY FOOD BANKS CANADA?
Food Banks Canada is the leader in addressing food insecurity in Canada. Our mission is to provide national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network from coast to coast to coast. For over 40 years, food banks have been dedicated to helping people living in Canada with food insecurity.
Over 5,500 food banks and community organizations come together to serve our most vulnerable neighbours, who — this year — made 2.35 million visits to these organizations in one month alone, according to our HungerCount report.
Since 2010, Food Banks Canada has shared over $1.2 billion in food supports and over $292 million in funding to help strengthen the food bank network to meet demand and improve access where it’s needed most—while, backed by leading research, advocating for meaningful actions from governments to counter hunger and its root causes.
Our vision is clear: to create a Canada where no one goes hungry.
* Stats sourced from HungerCount 2026
