Project SHARE

Community cares when you need support and help they are there to address several different needs. For your children, parents, family and self. When you need support.

ive been coming here for almost a year now and let me tell you. only a handful of times have i gotten anything even remotely edible. Soggy fruit, rotten milk - telling me i can pick 2 things from a shelf in the fridge and everything expired 2-3 months ago(DAIRY PRODUCTS!!). is that your thought process " people are struggling so they'll eat anything ? " even if it will make them sick ? Not to mention all the signs in tourist areas saying " no panhandling, support local communities" when you need an address, ID, phone number etc to even make an appointment. How are people going to survive when all you can really give them in 8 bags of bread? The only good experience ive had here was working with certain staff.

I recently had to use this food bank, and although the staff is lovely, I got there and waited over an hour and this was after reaching out earlier and asking if I needed an appointment. I was told no. While I was waiting more people kept coming in, and I was finally called to be entered into the computer. The system works well but I have a few issues. As someone with allergies, and considering there was so little left when I went - barely anything to feed my dog- I guess animals don’t need to eat yet they are living breathing creatures- and I cook for him. They didn’t seem to care. I was just told no, you can't have anything for your dog. So I guess it’s rice and spinach for him. But they had a lot of stuff with peanuts. A whole shelf of huge peanut butter jars. I am deathly allergic to peanuts, and the director would NOT allow me to substitute another item on the second shelf, or get an item more. So say if someone is getting 16 items, I’m getting 13 because I don’t eat peanut butter and she seemed to think that was fair. She said she’d substitute another butter for peanuts butter? So cream cheese wouldn’t count as a spread but a butter would? Peanut butter is called butter not because it’s a butter but because of its texture. People use it in sandwiches. It's PROTEIN. SO IS CHEESE. They also use cheese spreads in sandwiches so while I left with a small 2 bags because some stuff I just couldn’t eat- and I was asked IF I had allergies at the beginning and yet I was NOT allowed to substitute. You think they would have let me take a ground beef as well as a portion or chicken. So am I pleased not so much. Having people wait over an hour when they need food, only to find empty shelves (which could have been said to me in the email) come in the morning as shelves I’ll be empty. There were NO eggs also. NO EGGS. Families with children are able to go in and get quite a bit (they have children) BUT FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN GET CHILD BENEFITS WHICH SOMETIMES IS ALMOST UP TO $4000 DEPENDING ON HOW MANY CHILDREN YOU HAVE. So A SINGLE PERSON, GETS NO GOVERNMENT BENEFITS! AND CERTAINLY NO DOG BENEFITS! SO i found their system completely imbalanced. 1 Can of tuna? and a family gets 5? Once that goes, there is no food for you as a single person. So my dog is starving and has nothing to eat and I have peppers, onions and lettuce (most of which is really bad beyond any expiry date... which is asking for ecoli.) and one potion of ground chicken (also expired) , one block of cheese (also well past the expiry date) but I passed up olives to do that- because I couldn’t substitute the peanut butter for anything. I’m sorry but if you want to talk fairness and someone is getting say 19 items and I’m getting 16, or my weight is 3 pounds and someone else's is 11- WHERE IS THE FOOD EQUITY HERE? I was also there before some people who were called before me and yet they got ahead of me and took all the strawberries. So they need a new system. Instead they say "people with appointments get ahead before walk in's while telling you you don't need an appointment and when you do get an appointment you're still waiting and the process is the same. It makes no sense!) If I’m there before someone then I should be shopping before that person, not based on when I am processed in the computer system. But none of those working there, NONE in those offices- have ever been homeless or hungry -- they have NO IDEA- some volunteers have used the service but the admin- they’ve only worked in the admin side and create policies so they wouldn’t know what it’s like to not have food, or to be told YOU can’t substitute. I am not ungrateful at all-- in fact NOBODY SHOULD EVEN BE IN THIS POSITION IN A WESTERN COUNTRY, THANK YOU LIBERAL GOVERNMENT FOR DESTROYING OUR NATION-- but i definitely feel discriminated against as a single person and woman - at that.

I am always greeted with a kind smile and respectful attitude. Their foodbank helps SO MANY people who struggle with food stability. I dont know what I'd do without them.

That was awesome experience and staff were extremely nice people all. They help people as sensitivity as their kids. Love you all!