Dear Community Members, NCRTA is holding its sixth annual food drive from November 22, 2014 to December 14, 2014 to benefit the Ottawa Food Bank. It is hard to imagine nearly 50,000 people, of which about 18,000 are children, depend on the Ottawa food bank for their daily meals. This is a great opportunity to help feed the hungry in Ottawa and we encourage you to join in our efforts.

Donations can be in the form of cash or non-perishable items. Tax receipt will be provided by the Ottawa Food Bank for donations over $20.00.

NCRTA would like to thank all organizations and individuals who participated and generously contributed to NCRTA food-drives in the past. 2013 Food Drive 2012 Food Drive 2011 Food Drive >>

Donating Non-perishable food and non-food items:

Ottawa Food Bank requests for the donation of mainly non-perishable food items such as 'canned meats', 'canned vegetables', 'cereal', 'rice', etc as they are easier to store and deliever to feed the hungry. You shall visit the following Ottawa Food Bank links to see what can be donated and what cannot be donated:

What to Donate: http://ottawafoodbank.ca/give-food/food-donations/

Non-Food Items: http://ottawafoodbank.ca/donate/non-food-items/

What Not to Donate: http://ottawafoodbank.ca/what-not-to-donate/

You can drop off your donations at:

• Tamil Language Schools:
  To encourage giving among kids, NCRTA would like to offer free pizza to the class that donates the highest number of items.


• Ottawa Sivan Temple


• Cricket, Soccer, volleyball, badminton clubs


• Craig Henry Dental - Unit 106, 100 Craig Henry drive


• Email to to arrange for pick up. We will pick up if friends and families can get together and collect the donations in one house.

Donating Cash:

Tax receipt will be provided by the Ottawa Food Bank for donations over $20.00. You shall provide your full-name, and address details for the Tax receipt when you donate cash. Note that every dollar donated provides five dollars worth of food for our community.

Yours truly,