The Lake Country Food Bank (LCFB) was recently able to help out many other B.C. food banks, thanks to a donation from The Colin and Lois Pritchard Foundation.
On Wednesday, Dec. 3, LCFB employees and volunteers, including executive director Joy Haxton and volunteers from MNP and 1-800-GOT JUNK were at the Kelowna Fruit Stand where they packed up and distributed around 1,100 turkeys and about 1,600 chickens to 26 other food banks across the Okanagan, Kootenays, Nicola Valley, and South Cariboo.
“The holidays are here, this food is going to help families,” said Haxton. “For some of these food banks, they don’t get the opportunity to give out chickens and turkeys, they don’t have that kind of funding, so when we were able to call them up and offer them [this], there were tears, it was lots of screaming and lots of excitement.”
Haxton added it’s opportunities like this that make all the work worth it.
“We’re deeply grateful for this demonstration of extraordinary generosity,” Haxton said.