Edmonton's Food Bank — Monthly Updates (Feb–Nov 2024 compilation PDF)

Original source: https://www.edmontonsfoodbank.com/documents/265/November_2024.pdf Retrieved: 2026-07-04

Key passages (extracted from PDF):

IN 2023 EDMONTON'S FOOD BANK: - "Served 417,908 people with food hampers. This representing 75,476 unique individuals compared to 67,046 different people in 2022." - Record hamper months in 2023: "August 37,462 people and November 36,643 people." - "Provided, on average, 400,000 meals and snacks monthly to partner [agencies]." - Volunteer hours increased from 118,400 (2022) to 141,233 (2023). - Monthly average rose "30,787 people per month (2022) to 34,825 people per month (2023)."

2024 numbers to date: - May 2024: "38,906 people served in [month]"; "34,815 people served on average" (2023 comparison box). 2019 vs 2023: 4.3M kg food donated (2019) → 5.5M kg (2023); 21,385 people served on average (2019) → 34,815 (2023). - Spring 2024 snapshot: "unprecedented increase in new clients … 43,323 people." "For the last 6 months, we have been providing food hampers to an average of 1,700 individuals who have never accessed our services before." - First-year pantry program: "provided food to 25,343 households providing 82,194 people."

HungerCount 2024 (Food Banks Canada, national, quoted in Nov 2024 update): - "It took around 25 years before food bank visits surpassed 1 million in a month … an additional 1 million visits per month — within the past five years." - "Food bank use soared to over 2 million visits in March 2024, shattering Canada's 2023 historic peak."

Executive Director quote (April 26 2024, Global News, cited in update): Marjorie Bencz on "the growing need" and food insecurity across Canadian food banks.