Peel Regional Police partner with Global Medic to provide food to families in need

BY ADRIAN ADORE

During the most challenging holiday season of the 21^st Century, Peel Regional Police collaborated with Global Medic to provide food to Peel Region food banks.

Despite the pandemic stricken year that was 2020, Peel Regional Police’s Youth Engagement Bureau seized an opportunity to work with a Canadian disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization, Global Medic, and delivered over four hundred boxes of non-perishable food items to local food banks in the Region of Peel.

An increased number of families in the community had need of additional resources during the 2020 winter holidays. This initiative was a positive response to the identified need and came about through community collaboration and the sharing of available resources to support those in need.

As a continuation of this effort over the month of March, members of both the Divisional Mobilization and Community Mobilization Units re-connected with Global Medic and obtained a further fifty boxes of non-perishable food items. These boxes went to various food banks within our community.

This initiative will be ongoing moving forward as Global Medic has committed to a partnership with Peel Regional Police to donate and distribute a variety of kits to the community on a regular basis.

A well-fed community encourages a healthier community.  Working together for the well-being of our community is the key.