In 2016, I was a student in Satoshi Ikeda’s Food & Sustainability class at Concordia University. Satoshi encouraged students to get hands-on experience as volunteers in the local social food economies. I volunteered at the People’s Potato, a long-standing initiative at Concordia that provides free (or by donation) lunches (and sometimes groceries) to students and community members.
For my final project in Satoshi’s class, I decided I wanted to work on an initiative to help build the social food movement on campus and in the larger Montreal area. I have personally been impacted by food insecurity in my childhood (due to poverty) and I witnessed students’ struggles with food insecurity on campus. Solidarity Food Movement came into being as a way to build community through food-sharing, to help support people facing food insecurity, and as a means of simply being kind and buying a beverage or food item for a stranger.
This section is about Solidarity Food Movement and how it came into being. I will also add posts as the movement grows!