{"id":22371,"date":"2020-11-22T02:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T07:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=22371"},"modified":"2020-11-23T13:40:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:40:25","slug":"local-food-banks-are-as-important-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/local-food-banks-are-as-important-as-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbotsford Food Bank accessed primarily by mothers, marginalized women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the seasons turn, food banks are preparing for the colder weather and further economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. David Murray, the executive director of the Abbotsford Food Bank, spoke with CIVL radio regarding food bank usage disparities noted in the Abbotsford community.<\/p>\n<p>Murray said that women comprise a majority of food bank recipients, including a rising number of South Asian women. He explored a multitude of factors explaining the higher use by women including lack of employment, COVID-19, and single-parent status. Murray describes the excellent work performed daily by staff at the Abbotsford Food Bank, and how the community comes together to confront these social inequalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the seasons turn, food banks are preparing for the colder weather and further economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. David Murray, the executive director of the Abbotsford Food Bank, spoke with CIVL radio regarding food bank usage disparities noted in the Abbotsford community. Murray said that women comprise a majority of food bank&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":22375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218],"tags":[3414,284,3415,2650],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22371"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=22371"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=22371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}