The Regina Food Bank launched the fifth annual Mosaic Million Meal Challenge, a month-long campaign to help address food insecurity in the city.
The annual challenge aims to raise the equivalent of one million meals from Oct. 1 to Oct. 27, according to a release from the Regina Food Bank.
On Tuesday morning, the initiative kicked off at Regina’s Cornwall Centre, with remarks from John Bailey, the Regina Food Bank’s CEO, and Marnel Jones, the director of government of public affairs for the Mosaic Company, who is the title sponsor of the campaign.
To date, the Million Meal Challenge has raised 4,750,422 meals, with Mosaic matching donations up to $75,000.
“Mosaic is honoured to be the Regina Food Bank’s longest-standing supporter. We have backed the Food Banks fall campaign since 2012. This year, we stepped up to fund the Mosaic Market at the new Community Food Hub, where the dollars …