One more year, ‘The Great Recapture‘has managed to fulfill its great solidarity objective in one of the most difficult years for collect food due to price inflation.
Thanks to citizen collaboration and the participation of more than 18,000 people throughout the weekend in the more than 2,100 food collection points, according to the first estimate of the solidarity entity, it has been achieved accumulate a figure of food products similar to that of 2022.
After a triage phase, these foods will be sent to the headquarters of the Banc dels Aliments de la Zona Franca, from where they will be distributed, as usual, among the social entities (about 650 throughout Catalonia) that serve people in vulnerable situations of our environment.
In the next few days, the financial amount raised through donations will be known, which is the other means of financing that the Banc has and offers to people who want to collaborate in this solidarity cause. Are Financial donations will remain active until December 15 through the website granrecapte.com and Bizum number 33596.
Impact on citizens
Lluís Fatjó-Vilas, president of the Banc dels Aliments of Barcelona, has highlighted that, once again, “thanks to the Great Recapte, we have achieved an important impact on citizens on the need to be supportive with the most vulnerable people in our environment.” Fatjó-Vilas has also highlighted that “the message of solidarity launched by the Great Recapte has spread throughout the territory.”
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Lluís Fatjó explained that this year was one of the “collections more necessary than everespecially due to the effect of inflation but also because the change in European subsidies will leave out 80% of the beneficiaries. “There are a lot of people who need it.”
Likewise, Fatjó has expressed satisfaction with the success of the call for volunteers to fill the necessary places in the establishments participating in the initiative. “We know that the volunteer positions we needed everywhere have been filled. In Girona and Lleida expectations have been exceeded. We are happy with the deployment of volunteers,” she stressed.