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a place where food is contributed and made available to those in need
they set up a food bank for the flood victims
How To Use food bank In A Sentence
- Local cable and satellite affiliates will distribute the food donations to local food banks.
- Traditionally, a food bank's shelves are filled haphazardly with whatever goods companies overproduce.
- Unless we work for justice through social change, the need at food banks, homeless shelters, and low-income medical clinics will only increase.
- Traditional banks are associated with wealth and profit; food banks with poverty and scarcity.
- Ads for her current tour have suggested that concertgoers bring canned food for local food banks but specify vegetarian food only.
- The organization relies on volunteers to pick up donations, unpack donations, pack hampers and work in the food bank on Wednesdays.
- The food bank shelves were piled with enough items to last eight weeks, said Jennifer Hayward, the food bank's treasurer.
- I think the dilatory approach Labour is taking towards boosting family incomes is unnecessary and uncalled for, while we still have far too many families dependent on food banks and other forms of charity for survival.
- The 122,000 cans of food collected by the teams were then donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society.
- The congregation regularly sponsors food bank drives and soup kitchens for the poor, many of whom are gambling addicts, and now faces eviction if the casino licence is approved.