Daily Bread announces new food programs in Etobicoke and Scarborough at start of Spring Drive

TORONTO, March 11, 2016 /CNW/ -

WHAT:	As Daily Bread's Spring Drive starts, Executive Director Gail Nyberg announces progress on opening up new food programs in under-served areas of Toronto. The Toronto West SDA Food Bank opened in the late fall in response to the increasing numbers of people living in poverty in the inner suburbs of Toronto. A new partnership with Canadian South Asian Growth and Support Services, and Working Women Community Centre, will see a new food bank open in June in north Scarborough. Both Etobicoke and Scarborough are vastly underserved when it comes to social service programs for people living in poverty.
WHEN:	Friday, March 11
	9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Daily Bread truck arrives and volunteers help unload food
	10 a.m. Media conference begins
WHO:	Gail Nyberg, Executive Director, Daily Bread Food Bank
	Gloria Samuel, Volunteer Food Bank Coordinator, Toronto West SDA Food Bank
	Christine Christie, Food Bank Client
	Toronto West SDA Food Bank Volunteers
WHERE:	Toronto West Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) Food Bank
	1621 Albion Road (Main entrance off of Martingrove Road)

GENERAL SPRING DRIVE INFORMATION

The fastest, easiest way to make a financial donation is online at www.dailybread.ca. Non-perishable food donations can be dropped off at any local fire hall. Most needed food items include peanut butter, canned fish, canned vegetables and fruit, rice, pasta, tomato sauce, canned/dried beans, baby food, cereal and formula.

About Daily Bread Food Bank
Daily Bread Food Bank is the largest provider of food relief in the GTA, and distributes millions of pounds of nutritious food out to almost 200 food programs across Toronto. Daily Bread feeds nearly 100,000 people every year through homeless shelters, women's shelters, drop in programs, food banks and meal programs. Daily Bread also fights hunger by fighting the root cause of hunger – poverty. Find out more about Daily Bread Food Bank at www.dailybread.ca.

SOURCE Daily Bread Food Bank

Sarah Anderson Austin, Senior Manager, Communications, T: 416-203-0050 ext. 238 C: 416-450-2196, E: [email protected]