A new food distribution point has opened in Erzsébetváros. Following the success of the model family support programme in Óbuda, more and more districts are signalling their need for the service.
The opening of the new food distribution point took place on 12 November at 11:30 am at the new location at 3 Rózsa u., with the participation of the Municipality of Erzsébetváros and the Food for Life Foundation. Here 400 people per day are served fresh, nutritious, hot meals. With this we now serve around 1500 people a day in the capital. In addition to the public catering on Teleki Square and feeding a children's home, we provide food for hundreds of people in Óbuda for those in need identified by the local family support service, and we also hold weekly or monthly food days in rural towns.
Our family support programme is an effective local intersectoral cooperation between a local government, its institutions and NGOs. In Erzsébetváros, at the request of the Municipality, at the request of Mrs. Keresztes Mónika Rónaszékiné, Member of Parliament, and Mrs. Bartusné Benedek Barbara, Member of the Municipality, we are introducing a model similar to the one in Óbuda. The local family support workers will identify the most needy families, pensioners and unemployed people living in the district.
By providing a hot lunch, families not only have access to healthy, nutritious food (which is „quality starvation” but also contributes to reducing its disadvantages by providing opportunities for financial savings. The model programme responds to real needs in a tangible way, overall a sustainable social ecosystem based on a small local community, which has the effect of transforming the recipient from being self-sufficient to self-sufficient. By meeting basic physiological needs, our programme indirectly helps people to reintegrate into society and the labour market, which is also an obvious economic benefit also produces.
The most common problem for families living in hardship in Budapest is not hunger in the literal sense of the word, but the consumption of food of inadequate quality and quantity. The diets of people living in low-income households are monotonous, consisting of the cheapest ingredients in order to meet other needs. Our priority is to ensure that the children, adults and elderly growing up in affected families are well fed, once a day with a healthy hot meal and fruit which of course also takes into account its other benefits.
It happens that by providing food, we can reduce the indebtedness of families and elderly people, thus avoiding their homelessness (a prevention programme), and in a milder case, the money saved can be used to buy luxury items such as medicines, nappies, school books, etc. We want to support the local temporary shelter, families who have lost their homes compulsory pre-savings, and to provide meals for children during the holidays.
Our aim is to strengthen local connections when people receive food, to help them meet, communicate and build relationships, to help themselves and each other, and to help the social safety net to promote the development of the their reintegration into the labour markett. The programme has an impact on the daily lives of elderly people, who are often isolated, as it is an event that encourages them to organise their time, to meet professionals and to overcome their isolation and social isolation.
All at volunteers who are motivated by an inner desire to help and are looking for ways in which they can be of benefit to society. The action mobilises a large number of volunteers, so that different social groups can get a personal impression of each other's problems, and is also an awareness-raising programme that reduces prejudices. During our food distributions, it is not uncommon for the recipients themselves to volunteer to help with food distribution, cleaning and tidying up, so we can say that „empowerment” we run programmes.
Our Foundation's work has been telephone donation line you can also support through. The Giving Line is a multi-network donation programme that matches a donation of £250 from the donor to the organisation called. The Poverty Relief Mission can be reached by dialling code 33, the 13600-They can help by calling. Call 13600 and enter the organisation's code number (33) after the operator voice has been logged in. This amount is the minimum cost of producing lunch for 1 person in need, meaning that just 1 person can be saved through food by making this call.