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The Murcia region has received from the Agricultural Guarantee Fund in 2009 a total of 1,728,724 kg of food for a monetary amount of 2,120,227 euros.
These foods have reached 140 organizations and over 140,000 people
The Government delegate, Rafael González Tovar, accompanied by Red Cross President, Aurelio Luna, President of the Hospital of Santa Teresa, Villar Vicente Conesa, and the Area Director of Agriculture, Francisco Parrilla, this morning visited the premises This NGO Cartagena for the fourth installment of food from the Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund (FEGA), which involves a total of 9,873 pounds of food and involves an investment of 12,224 euros.
González Tovar explained that with the fourth delivery of food to the hospitality of Santa Teresa de Cartagena, the FEGA has provided through the Red Cross in 2009 a total of 38,926 kg of food for this entity, which translates into an investment of 54,356 euros from the Government of Spain.
During 2009, over 1.7 kg of food distributed millonesde and more than 2.1 M € invested
Throughout this year, there are three organizations that have been commissioned to make four deliveries, giving an overall total of 1,728,774 kg of food, with a total investment of 2,181,543 euros.
These are: Red Cross has received a total of 505,382 kg of food, Caritas FESBAL 819,349.7 kg and 29,418 kg
The government delegate said that this year has increased by 75 percent the amount of food to distribute over the previous year, and also the needs are greatest.
For the whole of Spain has invested a total of 62 million euros, the amount allocated by the European Commission under the Food Distribution Program for the most needy in the community.
Staples
These are mainly food staples like rice, sugar, flour, milk, pasta, cheese, etc.
But also included a wide variety of foods for children, such as chocolate shakes, breakfast cereals, baby cereals, crackers, milk, then milk powder, custard, cheese portions, etc.
He also stressed that the food distributed under this program are top quality products, belonging to the first trademarks of the manufacturers.
Distribution to needy
The Government delegate reported that Spanish Red Cross and Caritas FESBAL have been responsible for distributing these foods in 2009, through a network of 7,300 charities throughout Spain, 140 of which are in Murcia.
These are the ones that finally do get food to more than 140,000 people in the region, for reasons of economic or social exclusion do not have easy access to them, either temporarily or continuously.
He indicated that the charities that have received food from this program include a wide range of organizations, ranging from religious organizations, soup kitchens, floors host, social services homes, reaching vulnerable groups such as the homeless, families with children or dependent elderly without resources, people unable to work, drug addicts, children in distress, battered women, ethnic minorities, immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, elderly beneficiaries of lower pensions, long-term unemployed, and Ultimately, those with any type of exclusion and as a result of the limited access to food.
Finally, the government delegate stated that "Spanish Red Cross and Caritas FESBAL reference are three organizations in the field of social assistance, with presence in Spain, having established and extensive experience in this field which have the means to make a success of this program and, above all, to have people, many of them volunteers, familiar with the social reality of groups to be targeted this Plan. "
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia
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