Egyptian Food Bank

Food is the most basic need in life and securing it for the poor on monthly basis can help with their health, social and financial statuses. The economic status has affected the underprivileged families negatively, hence; it affected their productivity. Therefore, Egyptian Food Bank designed the monthly feeding program in 2006 to support the poor & most needy families. The program relies on sending monthly feeding boxes to the beneficiaries’ on monthly basis. - EFB covers 250,000 families per month. - All families that receive EFB’s monthly feeding box, were previously studied and registered in EFB’s database. - The average number of members per family is between 4 to 5 members. The boxes are delivered to them on monthly basis. In order to have an organized process, the research department studies all suggested cases and evaluate them from the most to the least in need. The criteria that gets registered in our database are: -Elderly and Single mothers, to help them with their financial obligations and raise their kids by providing the Monthly Feeding box. -The unable to work (Elderly, Sick (chronic disease), Orphans and People with Special Needs). -Family men who are capable of working during their training and qualification period to have an actual job. Box components :The components may change quarterly based on need and availability, but the following list is available in the box throughout the year. - 1.8 Kg Rice - 1.8 kg Pasta - 1 kg Sugar - 1 kg Lentil - 800 ml Oil - 0.4 gm Salsa paste - 250 gm cheese - 1.2 gm canned beef - 100 gmtea - 0.4 gm salt Monthly feeding goals: -Offering some sort of stability to the families in need. -Offering continuous support to the families by providing the monthly feeding box on long term basis or short term basis until the training period ends. -Spreading societal awareness about the importance of food as a basic need. -Changing the perspective of people towards the hungry, a hungry person looks like everyone; he can be obese, however, he shouldn’t look sick. He is just a broken person who doesn’t feel safe.

Food is the most basic need in life and securing it for the poor on monthly basis can help with their health, social and financial statuses. The economic status has affected the underprivileged families negatively, hence; it affected their productivity. Therefore, Egyptian Food Bank designed the monthly feeding program in 2006 to support the poor & most needy families. The program relies on sending monthly feeding boxes to the beneficiaries’ on monthly basis. - EFB covers 250,000 families per month. - All families that receive EFB’s monthly feeding box, were previously studied and registered in EFB’s database. - The average number of members per family is between 4 to 5 members. The boxes are delivered to them on monthly basis. In order to have an organized process, the research department studies all suggested cases and evaluate them from the most to the least in need. The criteria that gets registered in our database are: -Elderly and Single mothers, to help them with their financial obligations and raise their kids by providing the Monthly Feeding box. -The unable to work (Elderly, Sick (chronic disease), Orphans and People with Special Needs). -Family men who are capable of working during their training and qualification period to have an actual job. Box components :The components may change quarterly based on need and availability, but the following list is available in the box throughout the year. - 1.8 Kg Rice - 1.8 kg Pasta - 1 kg Sugar - 1 kg Lentil - 800 ml Oil - 0.4 gm Salsa paste - 250 gm cheese - 1.2 gm canned beef - 100 gmtea - 0.4 gm salt Monthly feeding goals: -Offering some sort of stability to the families in need. -Offering continuous support to the families by providing the monthly feeding box on long term basis or short term basis until the training period ends. -Spreading societal awareness about the importance of food as a basic need. -Changing the perspective of people towards the hungry, a hungry person looks like everyone; he can be obese, however, he shouldn’t look sick. He is just a broken person who doesn’t feel safe.