How Your Donation Helps Feed the People

When you donate to the Feed the People program, you’re doing more than just providing a meal — you’re helping to create a space of dignity, connection, and cultural healing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Here’s how your support makes a difference:

You help provide hundreds of nourishing meals each week

What started with just 12 lunches has grown into over 300–450 meals every week.

Your donation directly funds fresh ingredients, meal prep supplies, and essential items that go into each lovingly prepared lunch.

You support Indigenous-led harm reduction

Our approach is rooted in Indigenous worldviews, where care is unconditional and healing is relational. Your gift helps sustain a program that doesn’t judge or pathologize people—but meets them where they are, with love, respect, and cultural understanding.

You empower people with lived experience

Many of our volunteers are Indigenous and/or have lived experience with substance use, trauma, or homelessness. Your donation helps provide opportunities for meaningful participation, leadership, and healing within the community.

You foster connection and trust

Every meal is also a moment of presence — a check-in, a conversation, a reminder that someone cares. Your support allows us to show up consistently, building trust and relationships that can open the door to deeper healing and cultural reconnection.

You keep the circle strong

In many Indigenous cultures, food-sharing is sacred — a symbol of unity, survival, and kinship. When you give, you help uphold this tradition and ensure that no one is left out of the circle, no matter their circumstances.

Your donation is not just charity — it’s ceremony, kinship, and love in action.

Thank you for helping us feed the people, in every sense of the word.