Hamilton Food Share - Kick the Tires!

Please join us to appreciate the generosity of our community who came together to purchase a new food donation truck for Hamilton Food Share including: the Hamilton AM Rotary Club, Arcelor Mittal Dofasco, Food Banks Canada, WalMart, Enbridge, the Harold E. Ballard Foundation, five Hamilton City Councillors, and the Rotary Club of Burlington Waterfront.

Joanne Santucci, Executive Director of Hamilton Food Share will be the guest speaker and will bring their new truck with her.  Included will be a special presentation of a Hamilton AM Rotary cheque.​

Joanne is the Executive Director and founder of Hamilton Food Share, which gathered 2.7 million pounds of mostly donated food for Hamilton’s 11 food banks last year. She grew up in Hamilton’s East End and for over 25 years has been passionately advocating on behalf of people struggling with hunger. Joanne loves this city. She is also deeply concerned about the increasing depth of poverty amongst the more than 12,000 individuals who visit food banks each month. Today, Joanne is here to give an advanced preview of the 2017 Hunger Count report on our local food bank network as well as the work of Hamilton Food Share, including the generosity our community in providing its new truck parked right outside today.