The task of finding food

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In Ottawa there are over 130 local agencies under the Ottawa Food Bank umbrella to offer essential resources to individuals and families in need.
To control fair distribution of supplies, there is a search tool on the Ottawa Website where users can enter their address to find the food bank closest to their home.
However, there is no full list of addresses for each agency available for fear of people taking advantage of the system.
A number of agencies offer interactive programs like breakfast clubs etc. which do not have the same restrictions that apply to supply distribution — anyone from anywhere can attend.
I constructed an excel sheet myself, by gathering the names of 27 main agencies in Ottawa which offer these programs from the Ottawa Food Bank website, searched Google to find corresponding addresses and used the City of Ottawa website to pin point the ward each address is in.
This will show how many and which food banks are fully accessible to people in each section of Ottawa.

This fusion table shows the names of each agency, with its the address and ward number.


 

This heat map depicts the number of Food Banks that are available per ward in Ottawa. It can be deducted that the areas with the most food banks have the largest demand for their presence. Alta Vista, Ward 18, has the most with four available food banks and must host a lot of people who are financially distraught.

I can post the full article later, as it is currently not completed. I wanted to make sure my data portion was submitted.

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