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If only 200,000 people donate, that's $5 million that will go to help the poor
READ: You can now sign up for the $25 Loblaw cardIf you want to go this route, first, apply for the gift card at the Loblaw card website. When you receive it, you can simply drop it off at your local food bank. You can find the nearest one through the websites listed below. Better yet, get people in your neighbourhood, community or workplace to apply as well and then drop the cards off in one go to streamline the donation process. “It may seem like a paltry sum to some people but it’s real money, it’s currency, so it can do a lot of good for those struggling on lower incomes,” says Roy Weber, managing director of Community Charity Services for the Waterloo region in Ontario. Gift cards are a better way to give than dropping off food, he says. “We prefer gift cards so the food banks can choose the foods they’re short on and buy those goods for their patrons.”
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