Winnipeggers called on to support Harvest Manitoba through Red Bag doorstep food drive
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Purolator Tackle Hunger campaign is launching its first-ever Winnipeg Red Bag doorstep food drive to rally the community to help donate 500 red bags full of food to Harvest Manitoba and its food banks.
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Purolator and food bank volunteers will drop off red bags throughout the North River Heights neighbourhood on Ash, Oak, Elm, Montrose, Waverley and Oxford streets on Monday. Residents are asked to fill their bags with non-perishable items and leave on their doorsteps before 9 a.m. on Thursday. Purolator volunteers will then pick up the full bags and deliver them to the food bank.
Harvest Manitoba’s most-needed items include: Baby formula and food; canned fruit; canned soup and stew; canned tuna; canned vegetables; instant oatmeal; pasta and pasta sauce; peanut butter; and rice.
Harvest Manitoba feeds 108,000 Manitobans every month, and nearly half are children. The organization collects over one million pounds of food per month, which is sorted and packed, largely by volunteers, into Harvest Hampers and distributed to Manitobans through the Community Food Network of more than 380 food banks and agencies in Winnipeg, rural, northern and First Nations communities. Harvest Manitoba is now in unprecedented territory as the demand for support has increased by 150% since last year.
The upcoming Winnipeg food drive is part of Purolator’s first-ever National Purolator Tackle Hunger Red Bag campaign. Until Sept. 30, Purolator employees are running community red bag food drives at numerous locations across the country. Over the past 20 years, Purolator Tackle Hunger has delivered more than 20 million pounds of food for Canadian food banks and has set a goal to raise over two million pounds in 2023.
Those who do not receive a red bag can donate at www.harvestmanitoba.ca/donate-now.
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