With the last days of November, the Great Food Drive returns. He Food bank Medina Azahara de Córdoba begins its main fundraising campaign with a new format since the pandemic, and which will reach practically all the supermarkets in the city and a good part of the province.
“Your help nourishes hope” is this year’s motto, in which the institution seeks above all to encourage financial donationsand not those which are manufactured in kind, still important and the majority in the era before the coronavirus.
As the vice president of the entity, Juan José Cas, explained last year, they were raised during the campaign 135,000 euros and more than 30,000 kilos of food. “We would like to continue to grow and reach a higher amount, but if it is the same, it will be exactly the same good for us,” he said.
There will be around 130 stores in Cordoba and the province where Cordobans can make donations between November 22 and 30. Then, the Medina Azahara Food Bank will purchase food and deliver it to the entities who will deliver it to their families. beneficiariesto people who need it.
Most supermarkets receive financial donations at checkouts. In other words, when the customer comes to pay, they are asked to make a donation and the supermarket writes it in the form. ticket and reserve the amount. Then, with everything you get at each location, you will be able to buy food for the corresponding value.
“It’s the most effective», summarized the vice-president, because this way the Food Bank can buy food when it needs to be distributed without worrying about the expiration date. However, there are still places that accept the donation of food stored in boxes.
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This is not what is recommended, and even less so at this time, since a lot of food has arrived that the inhabitants of Córdoba bought and donated to help the victims of DANA in Valencia, and which is accumulating in the Food warehouses. Bank, in the old slice.
There, a part is still unclassified, waiting to be divided by classes and expiry date and delivered with the challenge of manufacturing it before its expiry and of course of fighting against food waste. The Food Bank will not throw anything away.
