Community Engagement Sessions Recently, Seeds of Change Surrey held a community stakeholders event in the Guildford area of Surrey. The next one in planned for January in the Newton area. Why Guildford and Newton you might ask? Where do we begin ? We felt food security should be approached using a place-based, neighbourhood level approach. We decided […]
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All of the GVFB workshops for January 2017- June 2017 are on our website here: www.foodbank.bc.ca/events/ . To search the events calendar for just the workshops, type in workshop in the search bar. Upcoming workshops include: · A free community kitchen roundtable · Community Kitchen Leadership · Food Safe Level 1 · Knife Skills · Food […]
Read MoreStarfish Pack Backpack Program
The Starfish Pack Backpack Program was originally created in Abbotsford in response to teachers hearing the cry of their students. Teachers were heartbroken to hear their students were coming to class Monday morning hungry, reporting that they had not eaten over the weekend. Since hunger and food insecurity impacts all of our communities, a local […]
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Recently, Surrey Seeds of Change participated in a Parks Play Date at Holly Park. The group was chatting with local residents to learn more about how food security impacts them. The results ranged from a need for more culturally diverse foods to the need to have more low cost food options that are healthy. The next […]
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