09/08/2026
September is Hunger Action Month, a chance to look past the numbers and understand why food insecurity keeps growing across Ontario. Record high food bank use in Simcoe County is only part of the story.
September is Hunger Action Month, a chance to look past the numbers and understand why food insecurity keeps growing across Ontario. Record high food bank use in Simcoe County is only part of the story.
At The Sharing Place Food Centre, we see it week after week. Families are struggling not because of one bad month, but because wages, housing costs, and social assistance rates haven’t kept pace with the cost of living. That gap is what drives people through our doors.
Poverty has root causes, and understanding them is how we start to change them.
See the bigger picture with Feed Ontario’s resources here: https://ow.ly/2TWl50ZxGgT
