Feeding Canadian Kids Society

Feeding Canadian Kids is the only Canadian federal registered charity solely focused on filling the dinner-gap for Canadian children. To date we have provided 180 000 nutritious dinners to kids who would have otherwise gone to bed hungry. Together our efforts result in Canadian children getting a good night’s sleep and a nourished body so they can do better at school and have brighter futures. Our team is made up of a variety of devoted professionals who offer their experience passion and network to support our needs. Our original Feeding Canadian Kids model was straightforward partnering with restaurants caterers delivery services and community volunteers to make nutritious meals and deliver them to food-insecure children at local after-school programs. Our 2019 pilot project with 12 restaurants and 12 after school programs provided over 30 000 healthy dinners to hungry children in underserved neighbourhoods across the GTA. The economic safety and social challenges surrounding the 2020 and 2021 closures propelled us to reinvent our original model and develop two new initiatives. Feeding Canadian Kids at Home came about thanks to a professional team of caters at KANVAS and their generous food suppliers as well as with our friends from Maple Leaf Sports who made their ice rink into a major food production our volunteer delivery team was able to pick up and deliver over 8000 fresh healthy meals to the homes of our most vulnerable kids during the lockdowns. Additionally Families Feeding Families was created by devoted home cooks who were also home for the pandemic who meal planned shopped prepared and delivered over 4400 home cooked meals to vulnerable families throughout the most critical 24 months of the pandemic. By the grace of God and our amazing team of volunteers and small staff by the end of 2021 we had provided over 91 000 healthy dinners to kids throughout the GTA. With many of Ontario's restaurants permanently closed down since the pande