Quxia Lin: Food Banks

Local Food Bank Dept: But it's not like Lin, who was born in China, gets into a car to drive to the supermarket. She has to bundle her kids up for the 30-minute walk from her one-bedroom apartment to the local food bank, according to CBC. Recent studies show that a disproportionate number of recent immigrants use food banks. Among the million people in Canada who used food banks on a daily basis this year, almost half of them were children and new immigrants and every Saturday morning, like millions of other Canadian families, Quxia Lin and her children, Emily and Aiden, do their grocery shopping. Statistically, Lin and her kids are more likely to rely on food banks than the average Canadian. 'New and recent immigrants have more challenges when they first come to Canada finding that first job and struggling to get started.' Ravi Sreedharan, Fort York Food Bank (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.