This Halloween, organized groups of costumed
youth are going door-to-door in cities across Canada to collect donations of
non-perishable food items instead of candy. Trick or Eat is Canada’s largest
youth-led food drive. This year, by engaging 10,000 youth, Meal Exchange
aims to collect $45,000 in online donations and $550,000 worth of food to
support 100 local food banks
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TRICK OR EAT! CAMBRIDGE HAWKS SCARE UP FOOD DONATIONS THIS HALLOWEEN
CAMBRIDGE, Ont. – Over 867,994 people in Canada have no choice but to access their local food bank monthly. 38 per cent of these people are children.
This Halloween, organized groups of costumed youth are going door-to-door in cities across Canada to collect donations of non-perishable food items instead of candy. Trick or Eat is Canada’s largest youth-led food drive. This year, by engaging 10,000 youth, Meal Exchange aims to collect $45,000 in online donations and $550,000 worth of food to support 100 local food banks.
Players, Coaches and Friends of the Cambridge Hawks Bantam MD team are putting on their jerseys and costumes and going door-to-door this Halloween, to support the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank.
“The team jumped at the chance to help out when I made the suggestion after one of our games,” said Brent Thornhill, Cambridge’s Trick or Eat organizer. “It’s a fun team-bonding experience for them as well as a great way to give back to the community.”
Cambridge is one of the many cities and towns across Canada participating in Trick or Eat this year.
“It is really awesome to live in such a generous community with youth that care whether their neighbours will have lunch or breakfast. The Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank currently feeds over 1,400 families each month through the Emergency Food Program,” explains, Pat Singleton, executive director. “We are so thrilled to be able to work with the players and Meal Exchange”
100 per cent of the food collected will be donated to the Cambridge Self Help Food Bank. There is also an online donation option for those who are not able to donate food to Trick or Eaters. For every $1 donated online, Meal Exchange is able to provide 1 meal through a local food bank. So far, Meal Exchange will be donating over 400 meals thanks to online fundraising done by Hawks players.
Trick or Eat is Canada’s largest youth-led food drive. We have engaged over 37,000 youth, in over 75 communities and collected over $3 million dollars’ worth of food and monetary donations for local hunger-relief agencies. Through Trick or Eat, Meal Exchange is redefining Halloween as a day of giving where communities and youth to give back to those in need and raise awareness about hunger in communities across Canada.
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For more information please visit www.trickoreat.ca.
Meal Exchange is a national student-driven, registered charity that exists to engage, educate, and mobilize youth to work with their communities in order to alleviate hunger locally and achieve food security. For more, go to www.mealexchange.ca