A Delta company is looking for the business community to step up in a big way to help Canadian families in Nunavut.
Evolution Fulfillment has launched a monthlong charitable supply raise from June 1 to 30 focusing on non-perishable items (canned foods, cereal, baking flour and baby food); toiletries (toilet paper, tooth brush, toothpaste, diapers, feminine toiletries) and clothes (adult, kids and infant tops and bottoms, socks and shoes).
Evolution Fulfillment's president Ben Martin and staff run the company's charity Evolution Fulfilled and are working with a group called Helping Our Northern Neighbours to support families in Nunavut.
Evolution Fulfillment staff did a comparison and found that a typical basket of goods is 241 per cent more expensive for a family in Nunavut than for one in B.C. where incomes are 18 per cent higher.
"We've been involved with doing some product raising within our business complex helping our northern neighbours in the past. We've had some great success and seen the difference it makes for the families in that community," said Martin. "For the month of June we thought it would be nice to get the entire Ladner community involved, businesses and residents, to see what we could do as a community to make a difference."
Evolution Fulfillment is encouraging local businesses in Delta to arrange their own mini-supply raises at their place of business for the aforementioned categories. Evolution Fulfillment's staff will arrange pick up of the supplies from the business and then arrange for and pay for the freight to ship the goods to Nunavut.
Evolution Fulfillment is located at 100 62B St. in Delta just past the Delta Town and Country Inn. See more about the campaign at: http://www.evolutionfulfillment.com.
