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L@G/Project Serve Guelph: Guelph Food Bank
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Outdoors, indoors, focus on manual labour projects

The Guelph Food Bank assisted over 73,600 individuals in the year 2011. Food Bank clients vary in age and ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, but they have one thing in common: they are all faced with financial hardship. Due to illness, short-term crisis, adverse economic conditions, and the ever increasing cost of living, our clients cannot afford to buy the needed groceries to adequately feed themselves and/or their families. The goal is not only to help meet the needs of clients in the short term, but also to help clients become self-sufficient and gain and maintain self-worth/esteem to eventually stand on their own with little or no help from agencies and groups within this community.

The Guelph Food Bank is a large operation and Project Serve volunteers will be helping out in a number of different ways. Jobs will include painting, landscaping, sorting clothing, helping with building maintenance, moving food donations, packing food hampers, and helping out with the garage sale. This is a great placement for large teams!