This year’s drive got under way a week ago and the association, which boasts thousands of members countrywide, has already collected about 200,000 pounds.
Source/Credit: Vaughan Citizen
By Adam Martin-Robbins | December 26, 2015
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its establishment in Canada next year and to help mark the occasion its youth wing is aiming to collect a million pounds of food for food banks across the country.
“The youth association wanted to do something big, something really significant for humanity so we raised our targets from a quarter of a million pounds last year to one million pounds,” said Ahmed Zakaria, national vice president of the Ahmadiyya Youth Association, during the official launch of the food drive Monday in Vaughan.
The youth association has held food drives for several years, collecting 100,000 pounds in 2013 and 250,000 pounds in 2014.
This year’s drive got under way a week ago and the association, which boasts thousands of members countrywide, has already collected about 200,000 pounds, according to Zahid Chaudhary, national director of humanitarian services for the association.
Some of that food was donated by Ahmadiyya youth while the remainder was garnered through door-to-door collections in neighbourhoods across Canada, canvassing in busy downtown areas as well as donations from large grocery store chains.
The million pound food drive will take place in three phases with the goal of collecting 60 per cent of the overall target by the end of the holiday season, 80 per cent by the end of March and 100 per cent by the end of June, Chaudhary said.
An event to celebrate the achievement and donate the food is slated for August.
The youth association has set up a Twitter account, @MillionLbsFood, to help spread the word.
“The online response through Twitter has been amazing,” Chaudhary said. “Canadian across Canada have been appreciating the youth of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at’s initiative.”
To find out more, go to http://millionpoundsfood.ca/
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Adam Martin-Robbins is a reporter with the Vaughan Citizen. He can be reached at amartinrobbins@yrmg.com . Follow him on Twitter and the Vaughan Citizen on Facebook
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