David Froh, vice president of the Regina Foodbank, says one in five children and one in eight households in Saskatchewan are food insecure. (Liam O’Connor/CBC)
He says there’s more than enough food in the world to feed everyone and that collaboration and innovation is key to achieving that.
“Food banks don’t actually control why people come in. We have a minimum wage that isn’t a living wage, [and] our clients are renters, but what we can do is innovate.”
Froh says food insecurity — one in five children and one in eight households fit that description — is getting much worse in Saskatchewan.
“We’ve seen a 42 per cent increase in the amount of people we feed year over year,” he said.”We’re feeding over 15,000 people a month [and] almost half of those are children.”
Tulbek, Froh and Nickerson say they want the soup mix pilot project to go nation-wide next year.
Tulbek says the goal is to scale up to three million packets a year and distribute them to food banks across Canada.