Animal Food Bank Foundation
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Mission Statement
Keeping Families Together The Animal Food Bank operates on four principles: - Education - Awareness - Collaboration - Cooperation Originally founded in Kelowna, BC, the Animal Food Bank aims to become a national organization promoting the sharing of resources and knowledge, and promoting collaboration between organizations working to feed and shelter the pets of the homeless and no/low income individuals by working together to help change their circumstances. Our organization aims to help fill gaps where we find them, and collaborate and support existing organizations. We don’t want any family to be in a position where they have to surrender their pet because they can’t afford to care for them. Pets provide our lives with so much and expect so little in return. The least we can do is help make sure the furry family members have a meal too. All pet l overs know first hand how important our pets are to us and our families. We wouldn’t trade the love, purpose, companionship, and acceptance they provide for anything in the world. That is only magnified for the low/no income segments and anyone experiencing homlessness. Pets are often the only being that has loved them unconditionally. And for many, their pets provide security, are their family and the one thing they can count on in their daily life. They are often their inspiration in working towards rebuilding their lives. And too often, service doors are shut on them because of their pet. We are working to change that.
About This Cause
The Animal Food Bank (AFB) addresses the social problem of food insecurity for pets, which is most acute for low-income and homeless human populations. Our mission is keeping pets with their families. Without support, low-income and homeless pet guardians face choosing to feed themselves or their pets, or worse– surrendering their furry family member to a shelter/rescue, compounding social service issues throughout thesystem. Founded in 2019, the Animal Food Bank exists to end food insecurity for humans by working to end food insecurityfor their beloved pets. We fill the gap left by strained human food banks by procuring pet food supplies, engaginga small army of volunteers within existing community groups to distribute them, and engaging our network withhelpful information and incentive programs. AFB is the only multi-city, multi-province pet food bank in Canada. We directly operate branches in Medicine Hat, Vernon, Osoyoos and Winnipeg.