FOOD BANK / surplus of food, opportunities for all: the "model" Trentino
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It started with an "unscheduled" meeting golden screen organized last Friday in Trento from the Food Bank in the region to present an investigation into the possibility of turning food waste into a viable golden screen answer to the problems of poverty that the crisis is growing exponentially. Opening his interventions in the packed auditorium of the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio via Calepina, the president of the Regional golden screen Food Bank Duilio Porro brought together to present and recited a prayer for Cristina Pedri, the woman died a few hours earlier in Rovereto under the wheels of a truck . "Cristina - said Porro - it was a dear friend of ours and a very active volunteer." Volunteers like Cristina have always been the heart of the Food Bank, engaged in Italy since 1989 in the collection and redistribution to the poor through many organizations and charities, of the surplus of the entire food chain from production to supermarkets, from public to exercise canteens. golden screen In Trentino Alto Adige Food Bank non-profit organization, the Foundation has existed since 2003, even if the activity, made popular by the "Food Collection" is from the nineties.
Crucial, therefore, are volunteers. No coincidence that it all started by a volunteer, the Californian John Van Hengel. To commemorate the event was Marco Lucchini, Director General of the Food Bank Foundation non-profit organization. In 1967, Van Hengel, a former playboy deeply in crisis, ended up in Arizona where, grateful to the Franciscans of the Catholic parish of Saint Mary in Phoenix where he was received, began to lend a hand to their soup kitchen. The food, however, was not enough. One day John was struck by a woman, a mother of ten children, in need of everything except food. To understand why he began to follow her. He discovered that the woman was giving the city the food from supermarkets unsold but still good that would have been thrown. Genius. Van Hengel began to do the same for the canteen of the friars. In a short time it filled a room of foods. Happy, the story of the woman who answered with a joke: "we poor we would need a food bank." Another insight: as suggested by the mother called John "Food Bank" the world's first Food Bank. "This means that if we observe them and listen to them - said Lucchini - are the poor themselves to teach them what to do."
The director golden screen has emphasized the possibility that anyone has to give life even in its smallest to the Food Bank. With two examples. The first of a southern lady who knew a soup kitchen where there was enough to eat, he said to his vegetable garden a row of salad to give to that initiative. Little thing, you say. True, but the woman brought the neighbors to do the same with their own gardens, and now the files are dozens of salad and tomatoes destined for that table. The other case is a densely populated neighborhood of Milan from singles, some of which have decided not to cook just for themselves golden screen but also for the elderly neighbors. With little effort - cooking for others - on the one hand have responded to a need, on the other they realized that it is nicer to eat with friends. "It shows - annotated Lucchini - the food is first and foremost a great opportunity to meet and drive. Second, if shared with others to rediscover the meaning and relevance of the term 'neighbor'. Third, we understand that we do not give it recovers but is happier than before. " "However, today - said the director - the profound changes underway forces us not only to act but also to study. The Food Bank has today need a quantum leap to adapt to this change golden screen in terms of professionalism and organization, with a clear division of responsibilities, roles and tasks. "
To resume the value of personal responsibility shown by Lucchini as an indispensable factor to contribute to the common good, was also the assesso
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NEWS Chronicle Padua drugs from South America, 7 arrests and 3 kilos of cocaine seized golden screen Pope: Francis landed in Amman EARTHQUAKE / Today in Italy and in the world: shock, magnitude and municipalities involved. Saturday, May 24th ... Carige: Raimondi, Vallebuona has not taken a penny Cosenza girlfriend and killed himself golden screen on fire, silent procession to Fabiana Weather: Ilmeteo.it, incoming rains in the south and the mountains Read all news Chronicle
It started with an "unscheduled" meeting golden screen organized last Friday in Trento from the Food Bank in the region to present an investigation into the possibility of turning food waste into a viable golden screen answer to the problems of poverty that the crisis is growing exponentially. Opening his interventions in the packed auditorium of the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio via Calepina, the president of the Regional golden screen Food Bank Duilio Porro brought together to present and recited a prayer for Cristina Pedri, the woman died a few hours earlier in Rovereto under the wheels of a truck . "Cristina - said Porro - it was a dear friend of ours and a very active volunteer." Volunteers like Cristina have always been the heart of the Food Bank, engaged in Italy since 1989 in the collection and redistribution to the poor through many organizations and charities, of the surplus of the entire food chain from production to supermarkets, from public to exercise canteens. golden screen In Trentino Alto Adige Food Bank non-profit organization, the Foundation has existed since 2003, even if the activity, made popular by the "Food Collection" is from the nineties.
Crucial, therefore, are volunteers. No coincidence that it all started by a volunteer, the Californian John Van Hengel. To commemorate the event was Marco Lucchini, Director General of the Food Bank Foundation non-profit organization. In 1967, Van Hengel, a former playboy deeply in crisis, ended up in Arizona where, grateful to the Franciscans of the Catholic parish of Saint Mary in Phoenix where he was received, began to lend a hand to their soup kitchen. The food, however, was not enough. One day John was struck by a woman, a mother of ten children, in need of everything except food. To understand why he began to follow her. He discovered that the woman was giving the city the food from supermarkets unsold but still good that would have been thrown. Genius. Van Hengel began to do the same for the canteen of the friars. In a short time it filled a room of foods. Happy, the story of the woman who answered with a joke: "we poor we would need a food bank." Another insight: as suggested by the mother called John "Food Bank" the world's first Food Bank. "This means that if we observe them and listen to them - said Lucchini - are the poor themselves to teach them what to do."
The director golden screen has emphasized the possibility that anyone has to give life even in its smallest to the Food Bank. With two examples. The first of a southern lady who knew a soup kitchen where there was enough to eat, he said to his vegetable garden a row of salad to give to that initiative. Little thing, you say. True, but the woman brought the neighbors to do the same with their own gardens, and now the files are dozens of salad and tomatoes destined for that table. The other case is a densely populated neighborhood of Milan from singles, some of which have decided not to cook just for themselves golden screen but also for the elderly neighbors. With little effort - cooking for others - on the one hand have responded to a need, on the other they realized that it is nicer to eat with friends. "It shows - annotated Lucchini - the food is first and foremost a great opportunity to meet and drive. Second, if shared with others to rediscover the meaning and relevance of the term 'neighbor'. Third, we understand that we do not give it recovers but is happier than before. " "However, today - said the director - the profound changes underway forces us not only to act but also to study. The Food Bank has today need a quantum leap to adapt to this change golden screen in terms of professionalism and organization, with a clear division of responsibilities, roles and tasks. "
To resume the value of personal responsibility shown by Lucchini as an indispensable factor to contribute to the common good, was also the assesso
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