The Salvation Army has launched a new program aimed at helping families with young children gain access to healthy foods.
The Nourish Family Food Centre will be held in the Salvation Army's Bethany Hope Centre on Woodroffe Avenue.
The Centre's emergency food cupboard will be stocked with healthy fruits and vegetables, dairy, grain and protein.
Part of the program is the Nourish Lunchbox Program which offers families options for healthy items for a child's lunch, teaching them new recipes that they can make at home as well.
Naomi Praamsma, the Executive Director of the Bethany Hope Centre, explained that many of the families that will take part have not always been exposed to healthy food.
"Many of the young families that we work with grew up in homes where there was generational poverty," she explained. "Maybe they didn't even live with their parents; they might have lived in foster care."
She said the tradition of sitting down to eat with a family may not have been common in their lives.
The Nourish Family Food Centre will provide education programs, access to healthy breakfasts and a monthly good food market to some 400 families at Bethany Hope.