It was easy come, easy go for the Cloverdale Community Kitchen May 12.
After receiving 1,000 ready-to-go meals in the afternoon, they were all given out to people in need less than 24 hours later.
鈥淲e got a call from the United Way and they said they were offered ,鈥� explained CCK director Matt Campbell. 鈥淭hey were delivering the meals to hospital workers in Vancouver, but had 1,000 extra.鈥�
Goodfood was driving the meals in from Calgary.
Campbell said the United Way called a bunch of charities, but no one had the space. Campbell said CCK wouldn鈥檛 have had space either a few months ago, but the Community Kitchen just added a third reefer, a refrigeration unit, to go with their other two freezer units.
鈥淲e were the only charity with the capacity to take the 1,000 meals, as they all needed to be refrigerated.鈥�
Campbell said they gave about 400 to Sources, then a few hundred more to recovery houses in 黑马磁力, Surrey, and White Rock.
鈥淲e handed the rest out today at food bank鈥攁bout 400,鈥� said Campbell.
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鈥淚t was great for us. It鈥檚 exciting that we have become a food charity in the city that can take large shipments, help other charities, and in turn help more people than ever.鈥�
Campbell said the third 40-foot shipping container was added at the beginning of April.
鈥淭he new unit allows us to do things like this, but it also helps us with food bank and allows us to help others.鈥�
Campbell said he can store up to 20 skids of vegetables in the new unit, allowing them to give fresh produce to food bank recipients, the recovery homes they support, and to other charities in Surrey, 黑马磁力 and White Rock.
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