The Barrhaven Food Cupboard is a grassroots, 100% volunteer-run, and community resourced organization that currently serves 600 food-insecure families (2,500 residents) monthly in Barrhaven. The number of Barrhaven families and individuals who need our food support has increased 44% year over year and is projected to continue to increase throughout 2024 and beyond. Purchasing food is our major expense, approximately $40,000 per month, regularly accounting for over 90% of our monthly costs.
Our Barrhaven Food Cupboard clients are a very diverse population – small and large families, many new Canadians, people from varied cultures, single parent households, people living with disabilities, and seniors. Many struggle to manage competing spending requirements with limited incomes, essentially living paycheque to paycheque. Almost half of our clients are under 18, with the balance spread across all age groups.
We rely 100% on community donations and need to raise almost $600,000 to support the operations of the Barrhaven Food Cupboard every year. Your support will enable us to achieve our core mission of providing quality food products to those food-insecure individuals and families within our community.