Tums brand helps Second Harvest tackle hunger

Who: Tums and Second Harvest 

What: For the fourth consecutive year, Haleon Canada's Tums brand is teaming up with Second Harvest, Canada's largest food rescue organization, to help end hunger.

During the month of September, known as Hunger Action Month, Tums is matching consumer donations to Second Harvest's food rescue and delivery programs up to $75,000.

"Tums is having an incredible impact this Hunger Action Month by helping raise 375,000 meals for people facing food insecurity across Canada," said  Lori Nikkel, CEO of Second Harvest.

According to Second Harvest there are four times more food charities than there are grocery stores in Canada and nearly half the food produced for Canadians, or 21.18 million tonnes, is wasted annually.

"The complex work of identifying and successfully redistributing food takes time, expertise and money; it's an important and necessary job that we are proud to support for our fourth year," said Sarey Wulf, Haleon Canada's head of corporate affairs in a statement.

Since 1985 Second Harvest has rescued and redistributed more than 432 million pounds of food - enough, the organization says, to feed nearly 400,000 people three times a day, every day for an entire year. But to do this work, Second Harvest says it relies on funds from partners like Tums.