The Toronto Miracle food drive is returning for its second year to help collect donations for the city's food security organizations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
This will be a one-day event drive that is striving to collect food donations from Toronto\u2019s 140 neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n
\"Last year in 2020, Toronto was having a lot of shocks because of COVID-19 and affecting people in different ways,\" said Kaspar Shahzada, a core member of Toronto Miracle. \"One thing that was really alarming to everybody was how much food bank usage was going up.\"<\/p>\n
The Toronto Miracle was inspired by similar events in other communities across Ontario, but this city-based one is the largest in scale, according to Shahzada.<\/p>\n
The drive works by asking resident to leave non-perishable food itemd on their doorstep on Dec. 4 by 10:00 A.M. Volunteers collect the donations and redistribute them to established food security organizations across the city at a later time.<\/p>\n
Organziations partnering with Toronto Miracle include the Daily Bread Food Bank and North York Harvest, Second Harvest Canada, Scarborough Food Security Initiative and the Salvation Army.<\/p>\n
In its second year, Toronto Miracle is hoping to raise 250,000 pounds of non-perishable food items to help address the city's increasing food insecurity.<\/p>\n