After enjoying two sold-out reveals at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, American rock band Metallica donated $40,000 to the town’s Every day Bread Meals Financial institution.
Its philanthropy basis, All Inside My Fingers, stated the transfer is supposed to supply assist to many households throughout the town throughout this significant time.
“Learning that there is widespread food insecurity in Toronto reminds us just how many people are faced with making tough decisions and need assistance,” Renée Richardson, the muse’s director, stated in a Monday information launch.
Meals insecurity has been on the rise in Toronto for the previous 4 years, a lot in order that Mayor Olivia Chow declared it an emergency in December 2024.
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A couple of in 10 folks in Toronto now depend on meals banks, in keeping with Every day Bread’s 2024 Who’s Hungry report.
Moreover, from January to March of this 12 months, Every day Bread member meals banks noticed 903,350 consumer visits, which is 4 instances the variety of visits in the identical interval in 2020, the non-profit says.
Neil Hetherington, CEO of Every day Bread Meals Financial institution, says the band’s donation will assist the group feed extra Torontonians.
“Right now, far too many are struggling, and these funds will help support food bank clients as the hunger crisis in our city reaches an all-time high,” he stated within the launch.
By this donation, Every day Bread is hoping to supply round 40,000 meals to communities throughout Toronto, which is about one meal for each greenback donated.
That is Metallica’ second donation to Every day Bread. In November 2016, the band donated all proceeds from their present at The Opera Home to the meals financial institution.
Together with their donation to Every day Bread, the Metallica basis helps assist Nellie’s, a girls’s shelter within the metropolis’s east finish, with one other $40,000 donation.
