Toronto food charities are making efforts to adjust to COVID-19 safety precautions.
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By Jasmine Afnan Al-kholani
Food charities in Toronto are striving to keep their efforts up even with COVID-19 pandemic safety measures in place.
Elliot Shulman, coordinator of Avenue Road Food Bank, says that they had to reduce the number of volunteers on the floor to maintain a safer working space.
“We’ve had to reduce the number of people on the floor to four or five at a time. It used to be four times that,” said Shulman.
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Shulman says that the changes were possible thanks to the volunteers’ hard efforts.
“The deal we made internally…is that the volunteers work together to keep each other safe,” said Shulman.
Avenue Road Food Bank is not the only food charity that has had to reduce the number of volunteers to keep the safety measures intact.
Second Harvest, Canada’s largest food rescue charity, has also made changes to adapt to these changing times.
“Prior to Covid-19, we could have a volunteer with the drivers…now our drivers don’t have that extra help to deliver food,” said Second Harvest’s volunteer coordinator, Marjorie Richards.
Richard says that many volunteer opportunities have been cancelled due to the pandemic.
Second Harvest reaches a network of over 384 charities, Avenue Road Food Bank being one of them.
Despite these challenging times, both charities are dedicated to ensuring that those in need are not going hungry.
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