Food Bank launches new collection campaign in supermarkets
Isabel Jonnet, president of the Portuguese Federation of Food Banks against the apparition, said the campaign was “the poverty rate in Portugal”.
Rodrigo Anununs/Lusa
Oh Food Bank against hunger This weekend will promote another food collection campaign in over two thousand supermarkets across the country, including over 40 thousand volunteers.
The campaign is “poverty rate in Portugal,” said Isabel Jonnon, president of the Portuguese Federation of Food Banks.
Oh Promotional sloganIt aims to improve the lives of families with needs “There is a name for your help: who will receive it”Food Bank highlights in a statement.
OS Volunteers are available in stores involved in Bank Bank, which are required to help those who want to be very needed, associations are asked to be “non -free food” such as associations milk, care, olive oil, sugar, flour and pasta.
OS Products are sent to the food bank warehouses in the respective area where they are heavy, separated and packed for delivery to beneficiaries like previous campaigns.
A. Can also be involved by “azuda whale” modeAlready used in previous campaigns, it depends on the cooperation of the product valleys, which can be available in supermarket boxes until June 8.
“When the situation is so difficult for most families, the food bank campaign warns many to ignore the reality of many people and the whole society is larger than each of us. Primary food partnership has a real impact on concrete people,” the president said.
Isabel Jonnet “Poverty in Portugal is still very high, HFor most elderly people who live alone, and the weight of the housing represents a lot of expanded budgets, fragile people who have worked, but do not get enough to meet all costs“.
Last year, the 21 food banks have been involved with 2,300 social organizations, offering more than 360,000 foods with proven food requirements and offered more than 100 tonnes per day, distributing 27,800 tonnes of a year.
