P.A. locals raising awareness about food security
Four Prince Albert women are spreading some holiday cheer while raising awareness about food security in the West Flat neighbourhood.
Shelley Essaunce, Trisha Budd, Amanda McAdam and Samantha Lachance came together to form the group It takes a community to raise a child. The four women have packaged 70 food hampers as a means to feed needy families at Christmas, to illustrate the absence of quality food in the West Flat, and as Essaunce put it, to be good neighbours.
“I moved here from Ontario. I had no idea where I was moving or what I was moving into,” she said. “I realized there was way more than poverty at play in my neighbourhood. I found it really disturbing, and it bothered me.”
In 2012, Essaunce and her husband started serving homemade food for West Flat children from their porch.