Kim Cummins, the Program Director at the Shelbourne Community Kitchen in Saanich, is among many witnessing an alarming trend.
Kim Cummins, program director at the Shelbourne Community Kitchen stocking the shelves at the food bank.
The program director says one story in particular has stuck with her, from a senior who visited the food bank for the first time a few weeks back. Isobel Mckenzie is BC’s seniors advocate. She says seniors are caught between a rock and a hard place. “The other complexity is the costs of aging that are not covered by our healthcare system,” said the seniors advocate.“None of that is covered in British Columbia by any program,” said Mckenzie.
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