2. the problems and opportunities of working to end hunger and build local food security The view from Davenport West and The Stop Community Centre Kathryn Scharf

3. Mission: to increase access to healthy food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds community and challenges inequality.

4. Poverty bestsellers? Assessing the social assistance recipient: crazy? or just lazy? Poverty: the taxpayer-supported lifestyle choice Toward a comfortable lifestyle, extended vacation: welfare as early retirement strategy Food banks: the awesome grocery store for the poor Budgeting with beans: a guide to thrift in lean times

5. stats 10.7% of people in the Waterloo Region are food insecure 1.2 million workers in Ontario earn less than $10 per hour United Way report: ¼ families live in poverty Currently highest unemployment in 15 years – 10% (plus underemployed and those who’ve stopped looking) There are waiting lists for subsidized daycare spots. Average daycare costs $1,000 per month. (A single parent working for minimum wage gets $1430)

6. ctd. Since the Harris cuts of the late 1990s, and without increases to keep pace with inflation, people on social assistance have lost 40% of purchasing power Every dollar earned by someone on OW is clawed back dollar for dollar from their cheque Half of food bank users have some paid work Food bank use is up 30% over the past year 35% of life years are lost to diet-related illness A child born after 2000 in the US has a 1/3 chance of getting diabetes in her lifetime

8. dtm outcomes Average total to live each month = $1430 (compared to $572 that someone on OW actually gets, and $1020 for someone on disability) Estimated cost for someone to pay for shelter: $624 vs. $349 provided for OW and $445 for ODSP Cost of food estimated at $260 vs. Nutritious food Basket at $200-ish 57% of respondents earned over 30K

9. food bank

10. drop-in meals

11. civic engagement

12. community gardens

13. community cooking

14. healthy beginnings

15. bake oven and market

16. the green barn

17. farmers market

18. after school / kids ed