The Food Bank against Hunger will carry out a new food collection campaign in supermarkets next weekend, underlining its “determinant importance”, at a time of “growing difficulties” caused by inflation and the rise in interest rates. interest.
The campaign, which It is carried out in person on November 26 and 27 in supermarkets throughout the countryIts motto is “Hope”, to underline the capacity of individual contribution “to improve the lives of others, with a simple gesture of sharing, especially in the context of an economic and social crisis that will foreseeably worsen in the coming months”, refers to the Food Bank in a statement released this Thursday.
“Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen solidarity and an additional collective effort by all Portuguese people so that it is possible for the Food Banks against Hunger to respond to the growing requests for help from the most needy Portuguese families”, adds the Bank of Alimentos, which claims to be helping more than 400,000 people daily, drawing attention to the “greater pressure” that the current economic context exerts on the most needy families.
Tens of thousands of volunteers, as usual, will be present in supermarkets from north to south of the country to generously and in solidarity collect the food donated by the Portuguese, in what constitutes unavoidable help for more than 400 thousand people, not only for that they may have a happier Christmas, but above all that they may eat enough and decently every day,” the statement said.
The Food Bank also mentions that, “in addition to the face-to-face campaign on the 26th and 27th, the collection will continue until December 4 through the possible acquisition of food vouchers available in supermarkets or contributions made on the web www. alimentestaideia .pt”.
Source: Observadora
