Trick or Eat: Students scare up 250,000 meals this Hallowe’en
Across North America, 10,000 youth participate in the continent’s largest youth food drive.
When the door opens this Hallowe’en, you may find a 20-year old goblin on your doorstep. She’s definitely not your typical trick-or-eater. Inside that costume is a Meal Exchange volunteer, and she’s not asking for candy. She’s asking for a donation of non-perishable food to help feed a local family that struggles to put food on the table.
Over 10,000 youth across North America are going door-to-door shouting ‘Trick or Eat’! This year there are 100 communities, up from 73 in 2010, participating in Trick or Eat – an annual event that is becoming a regular part of Hallowe’en. It’s a fun way for youth people to get involved in an issue that is sometimes ignored in today’s go-go world of Twitter and texting.
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| Who | Meal Exchange, a national youth-led registered charity. |
| What: | Trick or Eat, North America’s oldest and most successful youth-led door-to-door food drive. |
| Where | In 90 communities across Canada (please refer to the ‘Locations’ tab for a complete listing). |
| When: | Monday, October 31st 2011.
Times vary according to each community’s typical ‘trick or treating’ hours. |
| Why: | Because each month, over 867,994 people in Canada have no choice but to access their local food bank. 38% of these people are children. Food banks depend on Meal Exchange’s Trick or Eat food drive to help fill their shelves. |
| How: | Youth from coast to coast are putting on their Hallowe’en cosutmes and going door-to-door to collection donation of non-perishable food items instead of candy to support their local food bank. |