The Oromocto Food Bank has been in existence since 1987 as a rural food charity helping those who request assistance.  Over the years, the need for our services has continued to grow.  We built and moved into a new facility in 2012 that allowed us to expand our programming to include School Lunch Programs,  Community Gardens, Community Licensed Teaching Kitchen along with an extensive Food Rescue/Reclamation and Reprocessing program.

The Oromocto Food Bank has been working under compromised volunteer work space for the past four years.  Through solidifying partnerships we have become a central receiving hub for Food Rescue  fresh foods from large donors ie Sobeys Warehouse, Costco.  We are taking these reclaimed rescued donated foods and process them into frozen packges, soups and meals, thus giving them a longer extendable shelf life to enable us to share these prepared and frozen foods with our clients, schools as well as  CENTRAL NB Food Banks and rural food distribution organizations.  An example is: In the last three months, we have food rescued and processed over 70,000 lbs of fruits and vegetables saving them from landfill thus protecting our environment.

Our solution to the space problem was to purchase the adjoining property to our facility, and now we are embarking on a Capital Campaign to build a Warehouse Food Hub, where the donated goods will be stored, sorted, processed, frozen and shipped.  It also enables us to form new partnerships with farmers and new food handlers to increase our capacity and ability to move Fresh foods out into Rural communities that are Food Desserts.

We know that you will be as excited as we are to have this new build happen for our community and Central NB and the unique opportunity to be a part of this new venture that is helping so many.

Your contribution to our Capital Building Project will help us, continue to help the most vulnerable people that live in New Brunswick, which suffers the highest impacts of poverty in Canada.  

"The province of NB was recently rated as experiencing the second highest rate of food insecurity in Canada.  It was noted that the situation was worse for children with 29.4% of New Brunswick’s children living in a food insecure home in 2022.  Due to rising food inflation, this situation will have only worsened." 

Source:  Tarasuk V, Li T, Fafard St-Germain AA. (2022) Household food insecurity in Canada, 2021. Toronto: Research to identify policy options to reduce food insecurity (PROOF). Retrieved from https://proof.utoronto.ca