The COVID-19 pandemic persists and as the risk of a fourth wave looms, many families in the GTA are suffering. Food insecurity has been on the rise with months of lockdown across the country, and despite provincial reopening, families are still going hungry. Food banks have felt this increase as well, and have been inundated with clients, leaving shelves empty and families in need.

GlobalMedic and Hand Up Toronto continue to partner to bring nutritious, and delicious food to food-insecure families in the GTA. We have packaged grocery hampers called Feed the Six kits, containing various dried staple foods such as lentils, rice and pasta. We have been working together to provide 500 families with these kits each month, which are delivered to them via contactless delivery. Not only will these kits provide families with staple food items during these challenging times, but they will also minimize families' exposure to the virus by decreasing their need to physically go to grocery stores and food banks.

Today (Saturday, September 11th, 2021) we will be holding our monthly Feed the Six contactless dispatch out of GlobalMedic's headquarters in Etobicoke. Members of the media are invited to attend to capture footage of the Feed the Six contactless driver dispatch taking place. GlobalMedic and Hand Up Toronto staff will be available for interviews.

Location:
GlobalMedic HQ
35 Coronet Road,
Etobicoke, ON
M8Z 2L8

Date and Time:
Saturday, September 11th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
About GlobalMedic:
GlobalMedic is a registered Canadian charity that runs capacity building programs and provides disaster relief services to large-scale catastrophes around the world. GlobalMedic has responded to 234 disasters in 77 countries, including earthquakes in Ecuador, Haiti, Japan and Nepal; tsunamis in Japan and Sri Lanka; typhoons in the Philippines and Taiwan; hurricanes in Grenada and Guatemala; cyclones in India, Myanmar, Vanuatu and Mozambique; floods in Bangladesh, Mexico and Pakistan; drought and famine in Kenya and Mauritania; epidemics in Liberia and Sierra Leone; and complex emergencies in Gaza, Iraq, Mali, Somalia, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen.