CEO Josh Smee says one of the recommendations is government reduce the need for food charity by providing a higher minimum wage and income support rates, as well as a basic income.
Food First NL had a year long community conversation designed to re-imagine food charity and released its Rethinking Food Charity report yesterday. It included 23 recommendations for the food charity sector, government, and systems-level organizations. Stating the landscape of charitable food programs has changed dramatically since January 2020, they wanted to know people’s experiences with food charity. Also, how the sector can serve people better and pathways to food charity being not needed at all. CEO Josh Smee says one of the recommendations is government reduce the need for food charity by providing a higher minimum wage and income support rates, as well as a basic income. Smee says another recommendation is the creation of a Food Charity Transformation Fund to help in the process. He says throughout the year, they spoke to hundreds of people with food security issues but did not go to foodbanks.
Web: https://www.foodfirstnl.ca/rethinking-food-charity
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