A People in Way non-profit organization works with Food Bank Foundation Tuscany onlus for distributing food in situations of distress.
In Tuscany six hundred poor families.
The experience of the Food Bank
Laura D'Ettole http://www.coopfirenze.it/info/art_3508.htm
The experience of the Food Bank
Laura D'Ettole http://www.coopfirenze.it/info/art_3508.htm
They climb the stairs at night for fear of hurting the "new poor". Who opens the door to do it with shame, fear of being seen by neighbors.
This is the new reality of social exclusion, as seen through the eyes of the 408 charities that make Tuscan food bank head to the foundation. In figures about 2000 tons of products harvested in 2005, and redistributed to almost 53 000 patients. "In the rich Florence is estimated that at peak times there are 500 people sleeping on the street," says the chairman of the Food Bank Bazzanti Tuscan Christmas. Extreme poverty that affects mainly the elderly, persons without a family. But then there is the need for more concealed, that which is the folds of life seemingly "normal" and that is manifested by modesty and hard work: "It is one of the many Tuscan families who can not get through a month ', Bazzanti continues.
The Irpet has recently taken a snapshot of social problems in the region. In Tuscany today can be defined as poor 6 out of 100 families, among which, one is in a state of poverty statistics that define "absolute". Over the last few years have changed the characteristics of deprivation: there are younger, more workers are employed compared to yesterday. Not to mention that temporary workers have as much as 245% more likely to be poor than those employed permanently.
The possibility of belonging to a poor family increases for single-earner households with children, who live in rent. In addition, those who come from a disadvantaged family has a chance of finding themselves in the same condition of the father of three times higher than that of other individuals. All this in the civilized Tuscany, a region where the average income is among the highest in Europe.
"The Food Bank was founded to combat waste," stresses Bazzanti. To recover that excess of goods that "run" all around us, families, individuals and businesses. In stock Calenzano, which employs the 45 volunteers of the foundation, recently expanded to 1250 square meters, various things come. Over 40% of the products comes dall'Agea (Agency for disbursement in agriculture under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). This is 800 tonnes of food that come from agricultural surpluses and the European Union expected to be transformed into pasta, biscuits, rice and cheese for people who have nothing to eat. But this source is so valuable in the future will be halved because it is changing the EU policy in agriculture, and must be replaced by others.
The various industries currently contribute to the collection of the Tour with a further 17%, and the mass distribution at 5% and 37% for very different food collections. The latter carried out last year, 6500 volunteers have "guarded" 366 supermarkets setting in motion a prodigious machinery of solidarity that got thousands and thousands of products from the Tuscan town. From baby food oil, from meat to canned vegetables.
Recipients of food aid, thanks to this whole network set in motion by the Bank, now arriving freight for about 40 pounds per capita per year, maybe not quite, but for now you can not do more.
Once locked in boxes, in the warehouse of Calenzano, this mass of food through the myriad streams of Tuscan society of volunteering to get on the tables of the poor, in communities of recovery. Or to individuals and families who are helped with the delivery of parcel delivery. Many stories and more dramatic stories of life, in a plot that does not breathe.
Only the parish priest, in confession almost, people reveal their needs. And he, with absolute discretion, alert the network of volunteers who rushed to help.
must do more and more often at night, however, when the "other" sleep and dream. And on tiptoe so as not to be seen.
Testimonials
There who stole an entire shopping cart, but many have returned the bag half empty almost apologizing for not being able to do more. "For ten years I am in charge of food collection - said Simone Boni, head of the collection point of the Coop supermarket on Via Salvi Cristiani - and I was not such a thing never happened. It is a phenomenon that must make us reflect. " The hardships were many and not just come from afar.
"Every year there are still people who ask us if what we collect will go to the Third World," says Marcello Crew, the Misericordia in Florence. And when they explain to be used within Tuscany astonished. At the Mercy shall be only to prepare food parcels through service "food aid", which assists about 200 families throughout the city. People living alone, mostly Florentine families (those extra few) passing through a difficult period and are the first to report honestly that they no longer need food when we finally found a job after having lost him. It is not just an economic issue, although poverty is a strong component.
"I'm broken families where the father is often absent, with problems of drug abuse and neglect," says Roberta Bastiani, vice president of the Center to aid Massa's life. The goal is to help these people, mostly women, to become autonomous, to get a job. "We do not give them only to eat - concludes Roberta Bastiani -. The food is primarily a means to approach and start with them a roadmap to a decent future. "
The association is also involved in the recovery of food and non-food items, perishable foods high in unsold retail (supermarkets, etc.). In accordance with the requirements stipulated in Law No. 155 entered into force on 16.07.2003 (Law of the Good Samaritan) on the "discipline of the distribution of foodstuffs for purposes of social solidarity" and the Law No regional 32 25/06/2009 (Measures to combat poverty and social disadvantage through the redistribution of surplus food) to distribute to the needy.
And 'our aim to encourage and facilitate the recovery of food is still perfectly edible and non-food products, whose only disadvantage is that it has lost market value and thus be excluded from the market traditional.
Therefore, as a voluntary association are active in promoting and supporting policies to mitigate the hardship of people and families in finding resources and encouraging self-empowerment of those who decide to get involved in the activity of recovery, with knowledge of the sensitivity of relations with the recipients of the industry.
http://www.siticibo.it/
This is the new reality of social exclusion, as seen through the eyes of the 408 charities that make Tuscan food bank head to the foundation. In figures about 2000 tons of products harvested in 2005, and redistributed to almost 53 000 patients. "In the rich Florence is estimated that at peak times there are 500 people sleeping on the street," says the chairman of the Food Bank Bazzanti Tuscan Christmas. Extreme poverty that affects mainly the elderly, persons without a family. But then there is the need for more concealed, that which is the folds of life seemingly "normal" and that is manifested by modesty and hard work: "It is one of the many Tuscan families who can not get through a month ', Bazzanti continues.
The Irpet has recently taken a snapshot of social problems in the region. In Tuscany today can be defined as poor 6 out of 100 families, among which, one is in a state of poverty statistics that define "absolute". Over the last few years have changed the characteristics of deprivation: there are younger, more workers are employed compared to yesterday. Not to mention that temporary workers have as much as 245% more likely to be poor than those employed permanently.
The possibility of belonging to a poor family increases for single-earner households with children, who live in rent. In addition, those who come from a disadvantaged family has a chance of finding themselves in the same condition of the father of three times higher than that of other individuals. All this in the civilized Tuscany, a region where the average income is among the highest in Europe.
"The Food Bank was founded to combat waste," stresses Bazzanti. To recover that excess of goods that "run" all around us, families, individuals and businesses. In stock Calenzano, which employs the 45 volunteers of the foundation, recently expanded to 1250 square meters, various things come. Over 40% of the products comes dall'Agea (Agency for disbursement in agriculture under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). This is 800 tonnes of food that come from agricultural surpluses and the European Union expected to be transformed into pasta, biscuits, rice and cheese for people who have nothing to eat. But this source is so valuable in the future will be halved because it is changing the EU policy in agriculture, and must be replaced by others.
The various industries currently contribute to the collection of the Tour with a further 17%, and the mass distribution at 5% and 37% for very different food collections. The latter carried out last year, 6500 volunteers have "guarded" 366 supermarkets setting in motion a prodigious machinery of solidarity that got thousands and thousands of products from the Tuscan town. From baby food oil, from meat to canned vegetables.
Recipients of food aid, thanks to this whole network set in motion by the Bank, now arriving freight for about 40 pounds per capita per year, maybe not quite, but for now you can not do more.
Once locked in boxes, in the warehouse of Calenzano, this mass of food through the myriad streams of Tuscan society of volunteering to get on the tables of the poor, in communities of recovery. Or to individuals and families who are helped with the delivery of parcel delivery. Many stories and more dramatic stories of life, in a plot that does not breathe.
Only the parish priest, in confession almost, people reveal their needs. And he, with absolute discretion, alert the network of volunteers who rushed to help.
must do more and more often at night, however, when the "other" sleep and dream. And on tiptoe so as not to be seen.
Testimonials
There who stole an entire shopping cart, but many have returned the bag half empty almost apologizing for not being able to do more. "For ten years I am in charge of food collection - said Simone Boni, head of the collection point of the Coop supermarket on Via Salvi Cristiani - and I was not such a thing never happened. It is a phenomenon that must make us reflect. " The hardships were many and not just come from afar.
"Every year there are still people who ask us if what we collect will go to the Third World," says Marcello Crew, the Misericordia in Florence. And when they explain to be used within Tuscany astonished. At the Mercy shall be only to prepare food parcels through service "food aid", which assists about 200 families throughout the city. People living alone, mostly Florentine families (those extra few) passing through a difficult period and are the first to report honestly that they no longer need food when we finally found a job after having lost him. It is not just an economic issue, although poverty is a strong component.
"I'm broken families where the father is often absent, with problems of drug abuse and neglect," says Roberta Bastiani, vice president of the Center to aid Massa's life. The goal is to help these people, mostly women, to become autonomous, to get a job. "We do not give them only to eat - concludes Roberta Bastiani -. The food is primarily a means to approach and start with them a roadmap to a decent future. "
The association is also involved in the recovery of food and non-food items, perishable foods high in unsold retail (supermarkets, etc.). In accordance with the requirements stipulated in Law No. 155 entered into force on 16.07.2003 (Law of the Good Samaritan) on the "discipline of the distribution of foodstuffs for purposes of social solidarity" and the Law No regional 32 25/06/2009 (Measures to combat poverty and social disadvantage through the redistribution of surplus food) to distribute to the needy.
And 'our aim to encourage and facilitate the recovery of food is still perfectly edible and non-food products, whose only disadvantage is that it has lost market value and thus be excluded from the market traditional.
Therefore, as a voluntary association are active in promoting and supporting policies to mitigate the hardship of people and families in finding resources and encouraging self-empowerment of those who decide to get involved in the activity of recovery, with knowledge of the sensitivity of relations with the recipients of the industry.
http://www.siticibo.it/
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