About Capital Food Blitz

On the evening of Thursday, June 5, communities in Ottawa will take part in the Fourth Annual Capital Food Blitz. The Blitz is a door-to-door food collection initiative organized by The Food Bank and its supporters. Each year this event is growing and more teams are participating, helping to collect more food from more Ottawa residents.

Previous Blitz's have taken place in the Westboro area and will continue to do so in 2008. The Food Bank is also pleased to extend the food drive to other Ottawa communities, enabling others to donate and help fight community hunger this June.

More than 40,000 people per month receive assistance through the various service agencies that The Food Bank supports; 40% of these people are children. The Food Bank provides support to 127 member agencies. These include emergency grocery programs, soup kitchens, drop-in centres, recovery programs, women’s and men’s shelters and school breakfast programs, among others.

Sign up on your own, or even better, organize a team of 5 or more – call upon your family, your neighbours, your social community, your religious community, your athletic community and of course your work community!

All you need to do is commit to spending from 5:30p.m. - 8:30pm on Wednesday, June 5 helping to collect food.

Sign up under "Volunteer Opportunities" today!.