Harvest Voices 2024

Harvest Manitoba is committed to addressing food insecurity and poverty within our province. To shed light on the profound real-world impact of these issues in Manitoba, we surveyed communities from May to September 2024 to better understand why people access food banks.

Key Findings:

• Almost half (45%) of clients rely on employment as their main income source.
• Half of all clients (50%) are living with a disability.
• Almost all clients (85%) live in rented housing, including subsidized and rent-geared-to-income housing.
• Most clients (68%) are female.
• Nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents have children.
• Two-thirds of food bank clients (66%) earn $20,000 or less per year, which is below the poverty line in Manitoba for a single person ($25,471).

Harvest Voices 2024 amplifies the voices of hardworking families, newcomers, struggling adults, and seniors relying on our food banks. This report is a call to action that provides recommendations for the government and the public to help us fight food insecurity and ensure that no Manitoban goes hungry.