91原创 Charity, Kimz Angels, helps feed the homeless and low-income seniors and families through food and donation drive it holds each year. 

For the second year, Kimz Angels is holding a summer donation drive starting Saturday, June 8, at Aldergrove's Otter Co-op from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Founder Kim Snow said the annual event "fill the ambulance" is very needed this year in the summer, not just at Christmas, the first of the charity's annual drives. 

"More people are feeding seniors, immigrants, families with two jobs, that just can't make ends meet," she shared. 

Last year, Snow estimated the overall number of clients they support has increased substantially from 250 to 500 since the COVID-19 pandemic began to ease. 

The summer donation drives are an effort by the charity to meet the growing demand. 

Snow thinks the economic aftershocks of the pandemic are hurting people on limited incomes who struggle to cover the rising cost of food and accommodation.

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Otter Co-op is located at 3650 248 St. 

A second drive is being held at the IGA in Murrayville on Saturday, June 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.