Winnipeg Harvest

Winnipeg Harvest Statistics

• Winnipeg Harvest provides emergency food assistance to nearly 64,000 people a month across Manitoba. Therefore, Winnipeg Harvest clients are Manitoba’s second-largest city. This figure is up more than 14% over the same period last year.
• More than 47% of our clients are children. For each of the last two years, Manitoba is the #1 province for food bank use.
• Winnipeg Harvest feeds more 30,000 children each month. Ten years ago, that number stood at 5,500 children.
• Seniors and refugees have more than doubled in food bank use since 2010.
• 1/3 of families experiencing hunger are dual wage-earner families, ie: the working poor.
• Winnipeg Harvest distributes food to more than 330 agencies throughout Manitoba:
  • 56 northern and rural communities, as far north as Lynn lake
  • 8 First Nations communities
  • 106 food banks and emergency programs in Winnipeg
  • 13 soup kitchens
  • 38 day cares
  • 86 meal/snack programs at schools and drop-in centres
• In 2011, Winnipeg Harvest moved almost 11,000,000 lbs. of food.
• Winnipeg Harvest has 11 trucks on the road, six days a week. We have three cargo vans, six cube vans, and two five-tons.
• Winnipeg Harvest picks up from most chain grocery store outlets on most days – over 1,200 pick-ups a month.
• Winnipeg Harvest makes almost 500 deliveries a month.
• Our clients receive three to five days’ worth of food per month.
• More than 50% of Winnipeg Harvest volunteers are people who use a food bank.
• There were more than 347,000 volunteer hours from April 2011 to March 2012 at Winnipeg Harvest, which is equivalent more than 170 full-time jobs.