Times Chronicle Staff
Okanagan Gleaners has just finished its spring mixing – 5.5 million servings (55,000 bags) of dried vegetable product packaged and waiting to be distributed.
Ukraine, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Sri Lanka are all on the map to receive food. With the Ukrainian war, COVID, the climate crisis and rising costs, the need is higher than ever.
In order to continue efforts to help feed the hungry of the world, it has become necessary to construct a new storage building to house the finished dehydrated food. Currently, the Gleaners have only storage containers on site which present many challenges for access to move pallets in and out safely. The containers also become very hot in the summer months which can affect the freshness of the stored product.
The “Storage to Feed the Hungry” fundraising call has gone out to raise $350,000. The Gleaners encourage faithful donors and new donors to help towards raising this amount over the next few months.
For donation details, visit www.okanagangleaners.com.
