UWO - Graduate Teaching Assistants Union

Graduate Teaching Assistants Food Bank is the GTA’s Union initiative to support their members in critical need. Food banks help people to live through the critical times when they have no means to support themselves and/or their families, and need to ask for food supplies from the external sources. It is usually a delicate situation when one realizes that he or she needs to use a food bank. Unfortunately, many graduate students, who are in-between their student and professional lives with tuitions fees and loans to pay off, happen to be in such critical situation. We rely on dignity of our members to judge the state of their situation - the food bank is the last resort for those who need food supplies after trying to get the funds from elsewhere (including family and friends).

The GTA Union Food Bank was launched in November 2006 and is up and running. This initiative is supported by the PSAC Social Justice Fund and Regional Office. The GTA Food Bank is also supported by SOGS (the Society of Graduate Students) at UWO. It is the first functioning food bank for Graduate Teaching Assistants in Canada.

How the GTA Food Bank works:
It is a voucher only food bank. There are three classifications: single, double, family - which will be supported accordingly.

Who is eligible?
1. You must be a graduate teaching assistant
2. You must be in the need that without such assistance you or your family will not have enough resources for food.

How to apply:
Fill out the application form. You will receive an email within a week from the Community Alliance Chair or from the Union’s Office Manager. Once you received a response, then come to the union office and pick up the vouchers. If the office hours are inconvenient please contact us and the vouchers will be available at the union office at a better time. You can only receive vouchers once a term.

Please note that if you believe that your situation is a special case, please do not hesitate to contact us.


	Food Bank