Fall 2009 - Responding to Hunger

Responding to Emergency – Food shortage
This fall our community faced a widespread food shortage due to the rains coming much later than expected. The families that were hit the hardest were the poorest. Our team identified 30 of the most hungry families and developed a plan to feed them as well as replace the seeds they would have normally planted for the coming year that were consumed during this desperate time.

The families in need are members of our various widows groups and it was decided, by the groups themselves, that to stick to the principals that we have followed and to avoid creating dependence that the food and seeds would be provided as a loan to the families.

Each family needed about $60, totalling in $1800. The majority of the funds for this initiative came from the Legacy Corporation out of Calgary’s Vincent Massy Junior High