This is part of an ongoing HuffPost Canada series on food insecurity and how its affecting Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic . In this edition, we talk to volunteers from the Peoples Pantry, a grassroots hunger relief project that delivers hundreds of free meals and groceries to Torontonians.

If someone asks for food, its because they need it, is how Yann Gracia would sum up the motivation fuelling The Peoples Pantry . And many Torontonians are desperately asking: with one in five households going hungry , Gracia and 300 fellow volunteers are on-call to feed hundreds of people every month, and theyre dependent entirely on donations .