Description:
Hamilton is getting hungrier and Food Share struggles to fill the shelves.
“It’s worse ,” Joanne Santucci says bluntly of the city’s hunger Saturday – World Food Day as a matter of fact.
“Last year was the worst ever,” she adds, rhyming off the all-too familiar list of causes, the recession, the economy, the loss food producers who used to donate their overages, and producers being forced to be more efficient and not have over runs in the first place.
The Hamilton Hunger Count shows a small decrease in food use, over the year, down from 19,602 people in March 2009 to 18,500 this year and probably due to recovery in the economy. But that decrease did not take food bank use down to levels prior to the recession.
Type of Resource:
Newspaper
Publication Date:
2010
Volume:
October 18, 2010
Location:
Hamilton, ON