The Okanagan Gleaners are growing, adding a brand new storage building to their facility in Oliver, B.C. Before the new building was installed the Gleaners relied on temporary infrastructure to help store hundreds of containers of their soup mix. Now it’s all in one building.
To continue feeding people in need around the world Masson and his team are asking for the public’s help to pay for the new storage building that cost them $350,000. Masson says they are $80,000 shy of their fundraising goal that he is sure they will make thanks to a generous donor has stepped up to match all donations until the first week of September.
“Previous to this we were using 40-foot shipping containers to store our finished product when it gets to be [40 C and higher] in this little gully I can only imagine that it’s 60 C [or] 70 C degrees inside …