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On Friday mornings, volunteer Igor Bjelac pulls up to the loading area behind the Sapperton Save-On Foods to pick up a healthy load of less-than-perfect produce.

That fresh food will make its way to meal programs from New Westminster to Vancouver, including Aunt Leah’s and the Union Gospel Mission, organized by an expanding social enterprise called Refood.

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On Mondays, Bjelac helps distribute food to 40 refugee families at the Immigrant Link Centre. As a recent immigrant from Russia, Bjelac knows that Canada is a steep learning curve.

“But while they learn how to get jobs and speak English, they never have to worry about going hungry,” he said.

The food-donation collaboration with the Immigrant Link Centre represents just a fraction of what Refood has been able to accomplish in the last two years.

In fact, Refood helps feed about 2,500 people a day with food that otherwise would have been thrown away.