This is always worth a repost to acknowledge Hunger Awareness Week and raise awareness.

Every day, thousands go hungry and need to access food banks. They need fresh, healthy food as well.

Multi Shelters takes these causes seriously, and we do our best to help out where we can.

If you work with a project that could use some of our support, please contact us and we can see what we can do!

We thought we’d share with you an article we recently found on the New Brunswick Food Security website http://www.nbfoodsecurity.ca/2013/11/

Multi Shelter Solutions helps local food banks extend the season!

(Source: ACORN blog)

ACORN conferences are a fun and educational way to connect with other organic producers and consumers from across Atlantic Canada and beyond. Stronger connections lead to stronger communities and greater organic resilience in the region.

Norm Eygenraam proved this at their Greenhouse Conference last February. Norm, the President of Multi Shelter Solutions was so impressed by the West End Food Bank’s Garden of Hope Project he offered to donate a greenhouse to the project. The Garden had just completed construction on a new greenhouse and so thoughtfully asked if they could pass on the generous gift to another food project in the area. Foods of the Fundy Valley, a non-profit organization dedicated to the production and consumption of local goods in Albert County, gratefully accepted the greenhouse for their garden club at the Riverside Consolidated School in Riverside-Albert. Now that their growing season has been extended, they plan to share their bounty by cooking hot lunches for the kids and donating any excess to the Shepody Food Bank.

We at ACORN would like to say an official and public THANK YOU! to Norm and his generous contribution to food production in New Brunswick. Be sure to chat with Norm and the rest of our supportive Trade Show partners at the Delta Beauséjour – November 20th – 22nd.www.acornconference.org.