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For me, an organisation called „TAFEL“ (I’m sorry, the Link is only offered in German) is the most important organisation for food security in Germany.
The TAFEL collects excrescent, but high quality aliment and disperses it to people who need some benefit.
Here you can see all „TAFELN“ 25 km around my home – there are nine possibilities where poor people can get aliment.
Around 30 years ago the first „TAFEL“ was established in the USA, 19 years ago, the first one in Germany. Originally the organisation was established to support homeless persons, but today most of the supported people are low-income earner and jobless people.
The „TAFELN“ accomplish a balance between the abundance of food in our supermarkets, hotels and marketing events on the one hand and the food austerity caused by low incomes on the other hand. This has a lot of pros: the companies can show social responsibility, poor people can get cheep food and there is also a cutback of garbage which means a release for nature.
Some facts of the German “TAFEL”:
- over 860 “TAFELN” with more than 2000 TAFEL – shops
- over 50000 voluntary hands
- about 1 million supported people, therefrom 24% children
Another nice idea of the last years: for further support the discounter group LIDL does not only give food to the “TAFEL”. LIDL has arranged all their automats to bring back empty PET bottles with donation buttons. So you can decide if you want to get payed your deposit or if you want to give it to “TAVEL”
That’s my personal way to support: I give my deposit to TAFEL. Perhaps a lot of people will say that you must be active! But I think that it is much better to give your deposit, than only to say: the next week I really will be a voluntary… or perhaps the next month, but really in 2012….
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