Many feeling the Christmas hamper pinch across P.E.I., but Islanders are stepping up to help [Video]

Demand on food banks and community fridges across P.E.I. is up this holiday season, but some organizers say Islanders’ generosity is keeping them going.

“The thing that always strikes me here is how people in the communities… just rally around each other and help out when somebody needs something,” said Marg Brady, a member of Murray Harbour’s community fridge committee. 

“It just amazes me.”

That fridge opened back in March in response to what the committee saw as a growing need for access on the part of people who couldn’t travel to the food bank in Montague, about 25 km away.

• Help CBC P.E.I. Make the Season Kind

It’s not easy for the small group of six volunteers to manage the growing operation, despite both food and monetary donations from residents.  

“We are constantly restocking,” Brady said. “Sometimes we’re looking at a little shortage of food, so then we have to scramble around and get some stuff in there.”

As the …