Corporate Responsibility
http://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/AboutUs/Responsibility/driveawayhunger/pei_e.asp
"Each month, more than 3,200 people use P.E.I. food banks
and over 1,170 of them are children.
This year’s Drive Away Hunger tour was held October
16 and 17 across P.E.I.
Kicking off on World Food Day, October 16, the
tour involved employees from Farm Credit Canada,
the Upper Room Hospitality
Ministry, community members, businesses and children.
They banded together to support two tractor-trailer
tours that departed from O’Leary and Souris and
joined together in Charlottetown on October 17.
History
Farm Credit Canada’s employees are serious about
fighting hunger in Canada.
The first Drive Away Hunger tour took place in
September 2004 when an FCC employee in Ontario
drove an open-cab tractor
and trailer through the Listowel area for eight
days. Camping along the way, he collected almost
60,000 pounds (27,000
kilograms) of food for local food banks. His goal
was 30,000 pounds (13,500 kilograms).
Since then, including this year's tours, FCC employees
have raised more than 726,000 pounds (330,000
kilograms) of food
for food banks in Canada. Drive Away Hunger tours
have been held in Saskatchewan, New Brunswick,
again in Ontario and
this year in P.E.I. and Quebec.
Last year’s Ontario drive raised an astonishing
350,000 pounds (159,000 kilograms) of food.
Support for Drive Away Hunger continues to grow.
This year, two Drive Away Hunger tours were held,
one in
Prince Edward
Island and one in Quebec. This year’s goal was
to raise 105,000 pounds (47,727 kilograms) of food."
