Last week, an energetic group of Young Professionals representing our Kitchener and Vancouver offices teamed together to participate in a friendly competition at the ninth annual Great Food Sort Challenge, hosted by The Foodbank of Waterloo Region.

Putting their organizing skills to the test in a 50-minute race, our eight-person team excitedly unpacked many pallets of donated food and sorted items into various categories, such as pasta, cereal, and soup cans, etc. We’re proud of their efforts at their first ever participation in the event, as they completed sorting over 1,600 pounds of food, equating to over 1,457 meals that can be served or distributed in the community!

In addition, our team raised over $200 in donations to support the operations of the foodbank. The competition included over 300 people from 25 local businesses that sorted a total of 67,704 pounds of non-perishable food and raised $56,067.

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