Charitable Registration: 747836096 RR0001
Make a Difference
Food4Kids provides healthy food for kids with limited or no access to food weekends and during the summer months.
Packages of healthy foods are prepared by volunteers and delivered to schools weekly.
Affiliated chapters are in Hamilton, Halton, Mississauga, Niagara, Muskoka and Toronto. They prepare and distribute food to more than 4,000 children through 254 local schools.
Children live with many concerns... worrying about where their next meal will come from should not be one of them.
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Make a difference. Support Food4Kids.
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To provide healthy food for kids from at-risk, low-income or disadvantaged homes with limited or no food during weekend periods or during the summer months.
You can support Food4Kids locally by volunteering or donating in one of five participating communities in Ontario: Hamilton, Halton, Niagara, Mississauga and Guelph.
Food4Kids Ontario is always interested in working with corporate partners that want to help feed hungry kids.
Make a donation to Food4Kids Ontario today by visiting Canada Helps and help us continue to ensure that no child in our province is hungry.
OUR BIG WHY
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A 10-year-old boy waited outside the locked doors of a church breakfast program. The program was to start at 8:15 and the child stood outside at 7:15 in the dark, in the cold and alone. He explained he had not had any food on the weekend and was hungry.
Could he please have some food?
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This child was the inspiration to launch Food4Kids, an organization dedicated to fighting child hunger in Ontario.
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We wish we could say this was an isolated occurrence. However, thousands of children in Ontario are struggling weekends and holidays without food. We are able to feed some of those children but many more are having to wait until we have the resources to help them too.
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It’s hard to believe children in our very own community go hungry, but it's a reality faced by children each and every day. It’s not that parents do not want to feed their kids….they can’t. The worsening economy, job loss, working poor, illness, mental health, marriage breakdown or those fleeing their home country to seek safe refuge in Canada, are some of the reasons a parent will turn to Food4Kids for support,
Each week, Food4kids distributes healthy food packages to more than 4,000 children in Hamilton, Halton, Mississauga, Niagara, Muskoka and Toronto each week, 52 weeks a year..
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Help Fight Child Hunger
In Our Province
OUR locationS
Food4Kids started in Hamilton in 2012 when Founder, Lena Bassford, met the child mentioned above one cold wintry morning. School nutrition programs feed kids during the school day, but there was a clear gap where kids living in deep poverty were going hungry on the weekends. Lena and a team of dedicated volunteers developed the Food4Kids program and grew it into a major success in Hamilton and Halton. Soon, other communities were noticing Food4Kids and its impact and other passionate individuals started Food4Kids in their areas too.
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There are now 6 affiliated chapters providing healthy food for more than 4,000 children each and every weekend. Food4Kids also launched a Summers Without Hunger program, where children receive support throughout the summer months.
While we cannot eliminate poverty and hunger, we can ensure our community's most disadvantaged children, have access to food, critical to their physical, emotional and academic development.
You can support Food4Kids locally by volunteering or donating in the following communities:
Vision | Mission | Mandate​
Vision:
An Ontario where no child goes hungry.
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Mission:
To provide healthy food for kids from at-risk, low-income or disadvantaged homes with limited or no food during weekend periods or during the summer months.
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Mandate:
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Provide resources and support for existing Food4Kids agencies in Ontario to grow capacity, increase reach, and build strength.
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Assist Food4Kids affiliates to find, track, and share impact.
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Oversee the development of new and emerging Food4Kids programs within Ontario.
OUR board of directors
OUR SUPPORTERS
We are grateful to the many caring corporations who give generously to our program. Many not only donate funds, they also donate their precious time volunteering. Food4Kids proudly partners with several corporations to address the very real and tragic issue of child hunger.
Please connect with us at ontario@food4kids.ca to find out how you can get involved!
CONTACT US
If you would like to know more about Food4Kids Ontario contact ontario@food4kids.ca.
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We are no longer affiliated with Food4Kids programs in Guelph, Waterloo or Brant regions. If you wish to volunteer or donate, please contact them directly.
4391 Harvester Road Unit 3,
Burlington, ON L7L 4X1
E: ontario@food4kids.ca
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Charitable Business # 747836096RR0001