Food Bank holds city-wide drive to collect food and funds [Video]

An estimated 8,000 volunteers mobilized across the city Saturday as the Calgary Food Bank went door-to-door collecting food and funds.

After a record level of demand in 2023, the organization’s president and CEO Melissa From said it’s just as strong so far in 2024.

“What we’ve seen over the past 12 months is folks continuing to be impacted,’ From said in an interview with CTV News.

“Increases in mortgage rates and various cost of living increases –especially the cost of food has gone up – so much, so we’re still seeing that need growing in our city.”

From said one noticeable change has been in the rise of people using the food bank who have full-time jobs and still can’t make ends meet.

Saturday, the food bank mobilized its lengthy volunteer list in order to collect food and financial contributions.

“Today we’re hoping we collect somewhere in the ballpark of …