Community Kitchen Program of Calgary (“CKP”) believes that we have the ability to help initiate change effecting food insecurity. We believe everyone should have access to healthy, affordable and culturally appropriate food. This is a physical necessity, a human right and critical for people to fully participate in society.
Community Kitchen Program of Calgary now needs assistance in funding and important equipment replacement that helps us bring our programs to Calgary, some of the items we are in need of are:
1) We are in need of funding for our Program Operations. There are a lot of funds required to deliver these valuable programs to those who need our assistance. With ever increasing pressure we keep expanding our services, to more and more individuals who need our help in these times. So, we need more great people like you, to collaborate with us to ensure hungry children, women, men, seniors, indigenous people and immigrants are provided with enough healthy, nourishing food to sustain themselves at this particular time in their lives. Please join us in helping them today. Many hands make the load lighter.
2) A power pallet jack, this piece of equipment helps us to transport heavy loads from one area in our warehouse to another. This is an electric transport jack that can move the heaviest of pallets of food to any area in our warehouse and we can also load the pallets of food off and on a 5 ton truck with ease. $15,000
3) We are also in need of a Cardboard Compactor/Crusher, this is a unit that allow us to compact all the cardboard we handle with our programs daily. We compact a very substantial amount of cardboard each day. $20,000
Our Programs – How We Do It
Good Food Box | The Good Food Box makes top-quality, fresh food available in a way that does not stigmatize people, fosters community development and promotes healthy eating at an incredible savings.
Spinz-A-Round | We rescue food collected from local merchants and suppliers that may have been discarded for reasons not related to product life or quality and we distribute it to to our participating agencies that in turn supply to families around the city.
Calgary’s Cooking | This program give people the opportunity to plan and cook and take home 14 days of meals at a low cost. These are a collection of nutritious, budget friendly meals.
Welcome Home Hampers | This program is designed to help those coming out of transitional housing and homelessness. We provide a hamper designed to last a family for one month.
Souper Stars Program | The Souper Stars Program is a series of ten 70 minute classes, 1 class per week, taught to 30 different classrooms a year. The program is designed to teach children in grades 4 to 6 how to attain a safe and healthy lifestyle.
Tummy Tamers Program | The Tummy Tamers is special summer program providing food relief for July and August complementary to serve families impacted by this challenging time it is partnered with schools, City of Calgary social workers and community support workers who refer families to us.
For more information about our important programs please go to www.ckpcalgary.ca