World Food Day Human Library

This week, you may have seen blog posts from Sarah Michaelson or Aiden Enns who have been feeding themselves on $4 a day (the amount of money it is estimated that people on social assistance have for a daily food budget). Obviously, a one week challenge will only give them a limited idea of what it is like to constantly live on $4 a day for food without any choice. This Sunday to honour World Food Day, Food Matters Manitoba, Oxfam, Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Winnipeg Harvest and MAFRA are hosting an event called the World Food Day Human Library where you are all invited to come and  be involved in a conversation about food security and food issues in Manitoba. The $4 a day food challenge participants will be there and they will be joined by people who have actually lived on a $4 a day food budgets who can speak the their experience as well as folks from food organizations in Winnipeg. Please join us at the Carol Shields Auditorium in the Millennium Library on Sunday October 16th from 1:30-4:30 to continue this important conversation.