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Food for Thought
1 in 4 kids lives in a food-insecure home with too little income to buy enough to eat
These children live in your neighbourhood, go to school with your kids, and often hide their struggles from everyone.
When we eradicate poverty, we eradicate childhood food insecurity.
Plenty of research shows that the primary cause of food insecurity is a lack of income. Therefore, it’s most effective to respond to this ever-growing issue with policies and solutions that protect and improve household financial resources.
Imagine if you lost everything.
That’s what we hear from 100 distressed families every week when they arrive in Calgary after fleeing the ongoing...
With escalating rates of inflation, food-insecure kids need our support now more than ever.
The financial shock of extreme inflation has contributed to the massive increase in the proportion of children who suddenly live in food-insecure households across Alberta.
Hunger and food insecurity are not the same
Filling a belly is not the same as nourishing a body, heart, and mind.
We used to feed hungry kids. Now we empower families to feed themselves.
In April 2020, I Can for Kids (iCAN) embraced the daunting challenge of inspiring a major shift in the way charities and communities understand and tackle childhood food insecurity in Calgary.
Most innovations seem obvious. After the fact.
Supplying our frontline agency partners with grocery gift cards represented a focus on an income-based response to food insecurity because lack of food isn’t the issue, the root of the problem is a lack of money.