“Can you imagine coming with a bag of food and finding that you don’t recognize anything, but you have to eat it because you have no choice? It’s dehumanizing.”
Jean Claude Munyezamu remembers answering a phone call from a six-year-old boy asking if his non-profit group could provide milk for his newborn sibling.
“I asked, ‘Do you have food?’ The boy said, ‘No,” recalled Munyezamu, founder of the Calgary-based community group, primarily known for youth programs. That phone call was three years ago. Since then, Munyezamu said, Umoja has served at least 1,000 immigrant families every two weeks, delivering customized grocery bags, often with dried lentils, corn flour, semolina, kidney beans and donated restaurant meals.Story continues below advertisement
The organization doesn’t accept or give out canned food items unless it’s tomato sauce for pasta, which the organization taught families how to cook, Munyezamu added.
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