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Fall 2018
10,000 OF OUR NEIGHBOURS IN KAWARTHA LAKES DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT Excerpt courtesy of the Lindsay Advocate Published on May 31, 2018 in Community/Poverty Reduction by Trevor Hutchinson Some of our neighbours are hungry. Others are constantly deciding between utilities or food. That this should happen in Canada — a major food producer for the world — should be reprehensible to us. Food insecurity is usually defined as “the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.” And we are – officially, at least – collectively against it. We have agreed at the United Nations that food is a basic human right and that right protects every human from hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity. “All residents [should] have knowledge of and access to nutritious, affordable and safe food” is not taken from some crunchy manifesto but rather from the Food Charter on the City of Kawartha Lakes website. That everyone deserves access to healthy food should be a no-brainer. In the City of Kawartha Lakes, we are not plagued by physical access to food barriers like Canadians are in northern and isolated communities. Aisha Malik is a registered dietitian from the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit (HKPRDHU) and chair of the food security working group of the Kawartha Lakes Food Coalition. She defines food insecurity as “not having enough food or worrying there’s not enough to eat because of financial constraints.” Malik reports that 13.5 per cent of residents of the HKPRDU catchment area — which includes all of the City of Kawartha Lakes – are food insecure which is higher than the province-wide rate of 11.9 per cent. Put more bluntly: almost 10,000 of our neighbours don’t have enough food to eat, have to make difficult decisions between food and other bills, or worry about how the next load of groceries is going to be paid for.
Forty per cent of food bank clients are actually children
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It is the mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Kawartha Lakes Foundation to support the aims of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Kawartha Lakes by acquiring the necessary financial resources to meet local youth service needs.