In a line that snakes around Greener Village's parking lot on Fredericton's north side, C.J. Andrews pedals slowly.Hana Zeller, his girlfriend, sits cross-legged in a bike trailer hitched to the back of his bike. Tucked under her cushion is a large box of canned beans and peas they’ve brought to donate. But they’re also both here to pick up a food basket as they’ve done once a month for the past six months."I've got about negative 15 bucks in my account right now," he said.
"Rent is so high recently that you're looking at like nine to twelve hundred dollars a month for a bachelor apartment at this point," he said. "Recently, I was also let go of a job. I found another one now, but during that time it was a bit more frequently," she said."Although this job I’m getting paid a bit more so hopefully I won’t have to as much."
Karen Stuckless is also in line, but not for herself. She's running an errand for a senior who gets a box of food from Greener Village once a month. "I believe in what goes around comes around. And if more people were to help one another, I think the world would be a better place for sure," he said.conducted for CTV News found that one in five Canadians say they or someone they know used a food bank in the last 12 months.
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