WHO WE ARE

Our Beliefs

Ontario Christian Gleaners is an Interdenominational Christian Organization that seeks to visibly demonstrate God’s love and grace by working with volunteers to collect, process and make available surplus agricultural produce for the relief of the hungry in overseas nations.

What we do

The Gleaners provides relief and development organizations with vegetable mix or other dried products that are nutritious, versatile and easily transported to areas of need in developing countries around the world. These organizations have the necessary infrastructure for effective distribution and are committed to sustainability and development .

This food is provided free, as it is paid for by the love and participation of volunteers and the financial and in-kind gifts of our faithful supporters.

how we do it

Established in 2008, the Gleaners is a registered charity that is both volunteer and donor driven. Hundreds of volunteer hours are contributed each week to process 10,000+ kg of donated produce, assisted by the generous support of our financial donors.

Weekday mornings, volunteers arrive ready to trim 30,000lbs (per week) of donated fresh produce. Each day the trimmed produce is diced in our dicing machine, dried, mixed and packaged into 42,500 servings of vegetable mix- that’s over  200,000 meals per week!


Impact Stories & Testimonials

First hand experiences, impactful and amazing stories from ministries, sharing how the Gleaners food has helped those in need around the world.

For 10 years, the Gleaners food has helped us feed communities in Haiti, Jamaica, and most recently Honduras! Together, we have shipped and distributed over 13 million meals to schools, orphanages, churches, local community organizations, homes for the elderly, and low-income families. We often hear how much the children love the dried vegetable soup mix, and how grateful recipients are that Canadian donors are thinking of them and continue to support them with these food items.

Andrea Slipek

Food For The Poor Canada

Recently, I had the privilege to be part of a mission team to Rachel’s Home in Lesotho, S. Africa. One of our church members coordinated your gift for our mission.

Please let your team know that the work they are doing is incredible. I only wish I had taken photos of the children’s faces when they put the food in their mouths. From a nutritional viewpoint- the gifts you sent will go further than you imagine.

I was honoured and humbled to be the bearer of such wonderful gifts to such unfortunate little ones.

Dr. Donna Kolyn

I was visiting Village of Hope in Malawi who was fortunate to receive a gift from you, which will be a wonderful compliment to the foods they are getting locally. They serve about 70 kids, 3 meals a day and they get a good deal of variety from their local markets/their own garden, but they don’t quite get all the nutritious foods in the quantities they need.

I was SO impressed with your product when I saw it. It is dried so nicely and presented in such an easy to use way.

Stacia Nordin

RD (Registered Dietician)

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