—Volunteer

Use our app to rescue and redirect food. Volunteering with the Leftovers Foundation is a fulfilling, rewarding experience that helps reduce food waste and protect our environment.

—Our programs work around your schedule – you can use our app to choose which routes work for you.

Using the Rescue Food App benefits our service agencies by reducing their annual grocery bills so they can redirect that funding into vital education and rehabilitation programs that help our communities.

The Leftovers Rescue Food App also helps us protect our environment by tracking food waste data that we can use to show food producers – who can use it to restructure their policies. Leftovers volunteers make an incredible impact.

“It felt really great to give back to my community – bringing my daughter with me made it a great learning experience for her too.”

— Livia, Winnipeg

“The best part of volunteering with Leftovers, is feeling that I am contributing to help feed people in need...”

— Anonymous, Edmonton

“What a life changing experience it has been to volunteer with Leftovers. It has really opened up our eyes to see what can be done when groups work together.”

— Ruheen, Winnipeg

“Leftovers allows me to support and serve my Calgary community, who may be vulnerable or marginalized because of food scarcity.”

— Darcia, Calgary

You can choose from routes for our various programs such as Rescue Food routes, Fresh Deliveries routes, or our seasonal Home Harvest routes.

In 2020, Leftovers volunteers completed a total of 3543 volunteer hours.

415 active volunteers

4,776 routes completed

Total food redirected: 596,755 lbs

The Rescue Food App was developed as a simple method for volunteers to get food into the hands of people that need it the most. Sign up for available routes, with listed drop-in and drop-off times, on your schedule – pick what works best for you.