Every Plate Full with Alien Batman courtesy of the Unemployed Help Centre.Every Plate Full with Alien Batman courtesy of the Unemployed Help Centre.
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Every Plate Full Introduces New Mascot

The Every Plate Full campaign, complete with a new mascot, is back in Windsor and is looking for donations for local food banks.

Every year in the summer, the Every Plate Full campaign helps to restock local food banks.

June Muir, president of Windsor-Essex Food Bank Association, says that food banks get very few donations and supplies run low during the summer.

"Donations are always lower in the summer months because once schools get out, the schools that collect aren't collecting. People go on vacation. It's not that they forget, they just go on vacation and giving food or bringing it to a food bank during the summer months is not on their mind like it is at Christmas time," she says.

The campaign has inspired a grade two student at A.V Graham School to create a superhero to help encourage his fellow students to donate. However, Muir thinks "Brody" is a superhero, himself.

"He is a superhero [named] Alien Batman. He is passionate about making sure everyone has food to eat, and he needs your help," explains Muir. "He's part of Every Plate Full, and he's done a challenge, and the whole school is going to be bringing in canned goods, and it will go out to the 15 food banks."

The campaign runs until June 9, but you can donate to your local food bank at any time.

The Unemployed Help Centre at 6955 Cantelon Dr. They oversee 15 food banks in Windsor-Essex. Muir says that this campaign is needed to remind people about the importance of donating food.

"It is a great campaign," says Muir. "It reminds people that we still have people who need support. So, if we can give, we should give, and we should think of others, because we sit down to enjoy a meal every night, and there are still people that don't do that."

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