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A staggering one million children in Canada go to bed every night with empty tummies. That’s one in five kids who are food insecure, meaning that nutritious, sufficient amounts of food are unavailable or inaccessible, interrupting kids? ability to grow, learn and develop at the average rate. The COVID-19 pandemic, along with rapidly rising inflation and food prices, has accelerated the problem. 
?Food insecurity continues to be an important issue both across the world, and unfortunately here at home in Canada, affecting families, and especially children in need,? says Breanne Sich, Vice President of Marketing at Mealshare, a Canadian social enterprise focused on helping to end youth hunger. 
On World Hunger Day on May 28, Mealshare is teaming up with SkipTheDishes, the largest food delivery network in Canada, for their second annual Food for Thought campaign. The initiative helps bring meals to children and their families in need. Sich says that the campaign is vital to sparking conversations with kids and encouraging them to learn about food scarcity and about how they can help make a difference. Families can help out by downloading the Food For Thought ultimate activity package and completing educational and engaging activities, which include design-your-own garden, draw-your-dinner-plate, and colouring pages. These activities encourage kids to learn about important issues in a fun and engaging way. Once kids complete the activities, parents and edu...