What comes in a Gluten Free Harvest Food Box?
We supply an assortment of foods in each Gluten Free Harvest Food Box, including canned food, pancake mix, bread, and many other items. We also provide a brochure containing information all about the Canadian Celiac Association Manitoba Chapter and what we do in the community. You can read it below.
If you are looking for gluten free food from Harvest supplied food banks in Manitoba.
Please contact Harvest Manitoba directly. The Chapter has worked with Harvest in packing hampers of gluten free food for distribution by Harvest.
Please click this if you require gluten free food from the food bank to find the ways to contact Harvest.
Need Food? | Food Bank Network – Harvest Manitoba
Manitoba Chapter Food bank Harvest Initiative
As the Holiday season ramps up, we are asking that you remember the Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Celiac Association as a part of your holiday gift giving. The Manitoba Chapter has decided to approach those living with Celiac Disease in Manitoba to remember that not everyone is able to put gluten free food on their table. Please consider setting aside a small portion of your budget to support our continued Manitoba Harvest Gluten Free Hamper Initiative. The Manitoba Chapter has had a relationship with Harvest Manitoba for a number of years previous to the pandemic where donated food was collected at our in person meeting and dropped off at Harvest.
It came to our attention in February 2021, that Harvest was not able to sort for Gluten Free food as the pandemic had restricted their activities and they had moved to providing hampers to those in need. The Manitoba Chapter held a Gluten Free Food and Fund Drive on May16th at the Forks to collect gluten free food donations. In addition, a portion of monies collected over the Month of May and for our Virtual Walk-a-Thon in June would be dedicated to procure gluten free food for the hampers.
A subcommittee of the Board solicited donations from gluten free food producers and purchased additional GF food as needed to be placed into the kits. To date, we have had three packing events where individuals gave their time to pack 120 gluten free hampers. We estimate that each hamper has cost the chapter approximately $12. Thus, we have spent approximately $4200 on this initiative and this has been from the funds we have collected over this past year.
We are planning to keep this relationship going with Harvest and have a planned packing event in January. We would like to make sure that funds continue to flow to keep this initiative going and support people in the Province of Manitoba who require gluten free meal options.
We are asking that you consider covering the cost of one or more of our hampers to be packed in the new year. Also take into consideration that the Chapter provides tax receipts for donations by cheque over $20. All electronic donations through Canada Help or PayPal through our webpage automatically have a receipt generated.
We would like to set the goal of $2800 which would cover the entire cost of two packing events
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!
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