Distribution

St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank @ St. Michael’s Church – Leamington Kingsville Food Bank – Kingsville Serenity Circle Recovery Farm – Essex Salvation Army – Essex London Food Bank – London Feeding Windsor Essex – Windsor Oakridge Presbyterian – London Oneida Settlement

April, 2023: 686,400 servings of vegetable soup mix donated to Loads of Love for Ukraine. Thank you to Loads of Love and Canadian Food for Children for your partnership in distributing our soup mix around the world. May, 2023: 700,000 servings of vegetable soup mix donated to Canadian Food for Children for Africa.

We are happy to partner with the Diocese of London’s Migrant Worker Program to give soup mix to many of the migrant workers who have come to our area and around Southwestern Ontario. 1500 bags of soup mix will be distributed through St. Michael’s here in Leamington, and in welcome packages in surrounding counties. Thank you!

Through our distribution partners, dehydrated vegetable mix and apple snacks are shipped to food agencies around the world. We are grateful that surplus produce from Southwestern Ontario can be used to aid people both locally and internationally. List of Distribution Partners, amount donated from SWO Gleaners and location of shipments: Canadian Food for Children – 882,000 servings to Central America and Africa (various countries) Loads of Love – 648,000 servings to Liberia, Rwanda and Ukraine Speroway – 625,000 servings to

COVID-19 continues to slow our usual rate of production. Nonetheless, we feel fortunate that despite this, we were able to distribute over 2.8 million servings of dehydrated vegetable mix and apple snacks to local and international food aid agencies in 2020. In 2021, so far, 650,00 servings have been distributed and we expect this number will increase substantially as the year moves forward. In the image provided above, you can see our volunteers processed 1500 lbs of apples that were

Through our Distribution Partners, our dehydrated vegetable mix was shipped to Malawi and Haiti. Canadian Food for Children distributes food, clothing, and other items to over 20 different countries, including Malawi. Although it is very difficult to get aid through to Haiti, after several months our food product was released to its intended destination through Enable Haiti. We are grateful that surplus food produce from Southwestern Ontario can provide aid to people worldwide.

We were not short on volunteers which reflects the kindness of our community. In fact, there were so many helping hands that this large container was packed up and ready to roll in a mere 5 hours – which sets a new record! This container is set to arrive in Ukraine in December. Altogether we were able to send 420 boxes of dehydrated soup mix from Southwestern Ontario Gleaners, 30 bicycles, 22 wheelchairs, 6 hospital beds, an Arjo machine (which

On Nov. 24, 2017, roughly $50,000 in fresh veggies and dehydrated soup was delivered in the Gateway to the North through the generosity of a variety of organizations. The donations are to be split between communities in the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (PBCN), Montreal Lake, as well as The Full Gospel Outreach Centre, S.H.A.R.E and the Prince Albert Food Bank. For Beverly Hadland, the ambassador to First Peoples for the Crossroads Christian Communications organization, the donation of food represents an

A 22-kilogram bag of carrots from Leamington, Ont. traveled more than 1,000 kilometers by road and another 500 kilometers by air before it landed in Lance Baxter’s arms. The bulky bag was part of a food shipment that would usually cost thousands of dollars to get to Marten Falls First Nation, a remote northern Ontario community where about 400 people were in need of fresh food. “My community is in crisis right now,” said Baxter, after unloading skids of food from a North Star Air

We are delighted to be assisting the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. This is the first time, The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, has included our soup mix in their North of 60 program. In September 2016, a large shipment was received in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut.