By Cheryl Lu

FNUniv students hand out soup to raise awareness about food security

Nov 30, 2016 | 5:44 AM

Prince Albert students handed out hot soup and bannock to showcase an important issue in the city.

At lunch time on Nov. 29, a group of Sociology 202 students from the First Nations University distributed free food to people as a part of a class project. Diana Bird, a social work major, said her class wanted to shine a spotlight on food security in P.A.

“A lot of this is to challenge the mayor and the councilors and the grocery stores to make food security available to everybody,” she said. “There’s no grocery store on the west side, it makes it difficult for people that are marginalized that live there already to access food.”

Bird said if people living in the West Flat often have to spend extra money on either transportation or babysitters if they want nutritious food.

“That’s not proper access to food if they have to spend more money,” she said.

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Brad Dubois, who received a bowl of hot soup, said the project was a good idea.

“The west side’s got nothing, no grocery store. If you need something you got to run all the way across town, and it makes it hurtful (for) elders especially,” he said.

By giving out food, Bird said her class wanted to show people they could eat healthily even on a budget, adding the $30 spent could feed roughly 100 people.

Another purpose of the food booth was to challenge grocery stores not to throw away day-old-food or ‘ugly’ food, and donate it instead to schools with strict budgets for their meal programs, because according to Bird and her classmates’ research, there are many children going to school hungry.

Bird said giving out free food felt “awesome. It felt really good to give back to people.”

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