The Editor,
Re: "Bank feed city's body, mind and soul," News, Dec. 2.
I am writing about a critical problem that concerns Canada.
It is that Canada has a big shortage on food. Unfortunately, more than 2.5 million Canadians suffer from hunger.
Children, families, people with disabilities and many other people are enduring sickness from lack of food.
Even though many food banks are helping to resolve this problem, people are not giving enough food to the food reserves during summer and spring, when there are no holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Food banks need more money in order to buy essential items for these starving people.
The Richmond Food Bank contributes to hunger victims by distributing food to over 515 households every week.
Volunteers work hard day and night to provide yearround service for people in need of help. They lend a hand to distribute over 20,000 pounds of food weekly.
In 1996, at the World Food Summit in Rome, Canada and 128 different countries agreed that they would halve hunger by 2015. To reach that goal, food banks will need a lot of support from ordinary people just like you and me.
There are many ways we can help stop hunger. Someone may volunteer at the Richmond Food Bank on select days.
Or, maybe even visit the Steveston Bottle Depot to drop off some soda cans and bottles. If you mention that it's for the Richmond Food Bank, they'll send the money from the cans there as a donation.
Perhaps someone might even have a local car wash to raise money for our local food bank. When an individual goes to buy groceries, anyone can drop off some food at the drop boxes.
Anyway, there are millions of possibilities to collect money for food banks. As a 10-year-old girl, I sold items at a swap meet and the money will be going directly to the Richmond Food Bank.
There are many fundraising activities to choose from. But we should remember that sometimes even the slightest change can make a big difference.
As Mother Teresa said, "Kind works can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
Hedy Ng, 10
Richmond
