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- noun Plural form of
foodbank .
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Examples
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Foodbank usage soared by 19 per cent in Ontario in 2009, so that 374,000 Ontarians now use foodbanks.
The Diocese of Toronto urges action on poverty « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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Foodbank usage soared by 19 per cent in Ontario in 2009, so that 374,000 Ontarians now use foodbanks.
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Last year saw a 50% increase in the number of people helped by the trust's foodbanks, from 41,000 to 61,468.
Bonuses in the City, but elsewhere in the UK foodbanks are booming | Zoe Williams 2011
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Food for thought: How our dollar democracy drove 2 million Canadians into foodbanks to collect private charity in place of public justice (#2 in Hooligans) by Marlene Webber
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Charitable organization not needed for this outreach 2009
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Access to foodbanks is also very limited where I live.
Healthy Living 2006
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We were luckier than many of our neighbors who had to rely on these scraped down to the bottom of the barrel foodbanks.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2003
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But it would be the place to raise money for all of these South Texas foodbanks that are struggling so much.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2003
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Bonuses in the City, but elsewhere in the UK foodbanks are booming
The Guardian World News Randeep Ramesh 2011
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River Bend Foodbank released a hunger study earlier this year that found of households served by local foodbanks:
QCOnline Metro News 2010
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"We need to have a national network of foodbanks," said Phillip Blond, of the think tank
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