Cortes Island Food Bank assists anyone in our community facing food insecurity.

We provide healthy, balanced hampers twice a month, and operate under the principles of Food Banks Canada's Ethical Food Banking Code.

This means we:

- Provide food and other assistance to those needing help regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, income source, age, or mental or physical ability.

- Treat all those who access services with the utmost dignity and respect.

- Implement best practices in the proper and safe storage and handling of food.

- Respect the privacy of those served, and maintaining the confidentiality of personal information.

- Do not require payment of any kind for donated food or consumer products, at any time, from those assisted by our respective programs.

- Acquire and share food in a spirit of cooperation with other food banks and food programs.

- Strive to make the public aware of the existence of hunger, and of the factors that contribute to it.

- Recognize that food banks are not a viable long-term response to hunger, and devoting part of our activities to reducing the need for food assistance.

- Represent accurately, honestly, and completely our mission and activities to the larger community.