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An international state of affairs: examining the food bank crisis
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“58,000 individuals visited the foodbank more than 450,000 times last year” said Kim Wilhelm, Interim CEO of The Waterloo Food Bank. “That’s just in the region [of waterloo].” Subconsciously, most of us are aware that there is, to some degree, a food crisis. As the holidays approach, so do donation bins at schools, cardboard containers…
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Laurier to help offer fitness activities to women new to Canada
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Wilfrid Laurier University is helping to arrange fitness programming for newly arrived Canadian women and their children. The project, called ACTIVEIntegration: Social integration through physical activity, will offer participants a place to socialize while staying physically active and learning basic fitness routines. Activities are expected to start March 8 and 10 at the Victoria Hills…
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Halloween for Hunger gets new rebranding
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Laurier Food Bank’s Waterloo campus team is giving a new look to Halloween for Hunger, rebranding the event to later in November. In previous years, the event has taken place the week of Halloween, but due to scheduling conflicts has been given a new name. Usually, the Laurier Food Bank holds a donation drive for…
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Measuring the impact of the Brantford Downtown Outreach Program
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The Brantford Downtown Outreach Team, otherwise known as BDOT, is a pilot program implemented in July of 2019 with a focus on reaching out to people struggling with addiction, homelessness and other challenges. The idea for the BDOT was born out of a need for a new approach to working with vulnerable populations, such as…
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