Cash crunch hits Ottawa Food Bank heading into season of greatest need
Ottawa Food Bank warehouse co-ordinator Travis Glavich stands amid empty carts with less than a week to go before Christmas. The annual holiday food drive is underway until the end of the month, but the Food Bank is desperately short of cash.
Photograph by: Bruno Schlumberger , Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — There is a cash shortage at the bank.
The Ottawa Food Bank has seen their monetary donations dip by roughly 40 per cent and, as a result, has sent out an appeal for help.
The Ottawa charity, which has traditionally received a good portion of their annual operating budget around the holidays, have seen this year’s funds prove to be particularly sparse and hard to come by.
“We were looking at the donations as we were receiving them and growing concerned, certainly,” said Michael Maidment, executive director of the Ottawa Food Bank, “because the 50,000 people that we feed every month, we can only do so based on the community’s generosity.”
Maidment pointed out that it is difficult to speculate as to why the charity has seen such a significant drop in donations, but he pointed to the response to Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts in the Philippines as a potential mitigating factor.
“We know that Canadians are obviously very generous, as they should be,” Maidment said. “Potentially, many people gave to the international relief and have not had the opportunity to give to our organization or some of those other domestic causes.”
But now, Maidment is hoping for help on the local scene.
Various food drives throughout the year have seen ups and downs, with the annual holiday food drive underway until the end of the month.
“There’s been some mixed results on the food donation side,” Maidment said, emphasizing that the Food Bank is looking for funds to help keep the warehouses and delivery vehicles operating, while at the same time purchasing supplemental food,
The holiday season tends to be their busiest time of year in terms of donations. Although the three months after Christmas are usually the busiest in terms of need, the Ottawa Food Bank collects “as much as half” of its annual donations in December.
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Every Resident of Ottawa can help the food
bank by NOT supporting those who rob the province of a Billion
Dollars a year in what can only be called Government Sponsored
Organized Crime.
Ottawa spends $80 Million Dollars on its one of 48 private
secretive unaccountable "corporations" called The Children's Aid
Society of Ottawa whose primary business is adoption and foster
parenting that is all to often based on fabricating evidence and
using installed CAS lawyers as "judges" to "Rubber Stamp" their
decisions.
Then we have the Ottawa Police who use the largest of their
funds, for "partner assault" which means, promoting violence
towards men by charging Male Victims of Domestic Violence to
satisfy their feminist driven agenda of promoting hatred towards
men.
Perhaps the worst cases of Fabrication of Evidence in Ottawa is
the lawyer for the Ottawa CAS
"Marguerite Isobel Lewis" who is referred to as "The
BabySnatcher" . This lawyer fabricates evidence in the court
room when she does not have any evidence to support their
unwarrented involvment and their habitual failure to return
children to parents when it obvious that they don't have a case.
The Children's Aid Society of
Ottawa are funded $80 Million Dollars to fabricate evidence and
engage in make work projects to justify their own escalating
funding. The indirect costs of legal aid, and welfare payments
by Ottawa and Gatineau make the CAS an economic and social
cancer not to mention, a government sponsored criminal
organization.
The worst example of fabrication
of evidence by a "Child Protection Worker" goes to Mr. Philliip
Hiltz-Laforge of the children's Aid Society of Ottawa.
Then you have Ottawa Police
Detective Peter Van der Zander, who fabricates evidence to
protect violent women as part of the Ottawa Police's "War on
Male Victims of Domestic Violence".
If you know of anyone who has been
a victim of Marguerite Lewis and or Phil Hiltz-Laforge email
ottawamenscentre@gmail.com
www.OttawaMensCentre
It is
insulting that Ontario funds a Billion Dollars a year to the
business of "BabySnatching" by fabricating evidence and their
criminal activities result in billions of dollars of flow on
costs to the Province which is nothing less than organized crime
funded by the State against children.
The CAS are legal vultures, who prey upon the most vulnerable in
society. The very worst example has got to be their lawyer,
Marguerite Isobel Lewis of the Children's Aid Society of Ottawa.