Building Creative Structures with Unopened Canned Food to Support Local Food Banks - Canconstruction 2025, Waterloo, Canada

Hunger is a not a problem limited to developing or poor countries. It is a problem for many cities in western countries, and Canada is not exempted to this. There are hungry people in many Canadian cities. Fortunately, there are many compassionate people and volunteers who are willing to spend their time volunteering at the local food banks helping needy people to give them some relief.

We went to the Conestoga Mall in Waterloo during the March Break and saw some creative displays by fifteen local companies and community groups that took part in an annual event to raise awareness of the problem of hunger in the city. This event was called Canstruction. Using unopened can food which later on would be donated to the food bank, each particpating company used these cans to design and construct a themed display to highlght the issue of hunger in their community. There were fifteen displays constructed with varied themes and people who saw them could cast a vote on their favourite one. These displays were creative and our favourite ones were: 1. The Birthday Cake with candles on top of it and with a cut out slice ready to be served

2. A City consisting of different houses, highrise buildings with streets and cars as well as a building crane and even some green bottles for trees!

3. Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Giving

'This year, the event collected 34,680 pounds of food and raised $44,322 through donations from both the community and businesses. That’s the same as 117,543 meals. Since 2008, Canstruction Waterloo Region, affiliated with Canstruction, has raised more than 1.9 million meals.' These can constructions were fantastic! They delighted children as well as those who were young at heart. We were that we were at the shopping mall and didn't miss these meaninful exhibition of displays made out of canned food! RT, Canstruction 2025 Conestoga Mall, Waterloo, Canada