United Way of the Lower Mainland has sent out an urgent plea for help from the public as its agencies are struggling to keep up with the skyrocketing need for food during the COVID-19 crisis. “I would say every week, every day it’s becoming more and more,” Kim Winchell, the organization’s director of social impact, says. “People have been relying on some savings to get through a couple weeks, but as this drags on we’re seeing more and people reaching out. “It’s really unprecedented to see people reaching out in this volume, this level of need where we have 98 per cent of our non-profit agencies telling us that they have an increase in people asking for food, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.” United Way’s 17 Local Love Food Hubs