AFTER Lochaber Food Bank opened in 2013, it handed out enough food for 1,727 meals in its first five months in operation.
By the end of last year, that figure had rocketed to a staggering 14,052 meals feeding 1,171 people.
The past five years of helping those in crisis has seen the Fort William- based charity give out 42,838 meals, equivalent to 29,000kgs, or almost 30 tonnes, of food.