Food bank about the action

Food bank about the action You can already register for the 2017 promotion! This year again a great experience with Oosterhout for Each Other. This year, the Oosterhout Food Bank (Goods Bank de Baronie) organized a shopping promotion for the 12th time. The purpose of this is twofold. First, that people are aware that there is still quiet poverty close to home. And secondly, that this will make extra nutrition available to hand out to our clients, so that we can give an extra helping hand. We hereby ask the managers of supermarkets in Oosterhout, Dongen, 's-Gravenmoer and Raamsdonksveer to cooperate. In those stores, customers of the store are asked if they want to do an extra errand and hand it over to the volunteers who are there on behalf of the Food Bank after the checkout. This year 13 supermarkets participated and the promotion lasts 3 days. Always at the end of January. For those 13 supermarkets we then need 2 volunteers for every part of the day (4 hours). This means that you need 3 x 2 = 6 volunteers per day per supermarket. There are 3 days to fill so that is 3 x 6 = 18 per supermarket. Since we are talking about 13 supermarkets, you will need 18 x 13 = 204 volunteers. The Food Bank has a permanent group of 25 people who make their services available here all year round and these are also desperately needed at the main location on the Kanaalstraat where all the banana boxes full from the supermarkets will arrive. We will therefore have to recruit those 204 volunteers from Oosterhout and the surrounding area. That's a huge job. A long run to make clear what this story is about. For several years we have made a SUPER find. Oosterhout voor Elkaar supports us more than 100% in this quest. The Oosterhout team for each other is the driving factor for us here. We approached many people from Oosterhout's "card box" for each other with the question whether they wanted to fill in a part of the day for us. We have found several people willing to do this. Some from last year, but also new people who were so enthusiastic afterwards that they already indicated that they would like to participate again next year. We were of course very happy with that and it is always about people with a warm heart. Because who wouldn't want to do something for someone in need? Because we had a "super match" for each other via Oosterhout, there was even a considerable amount in the Stem. Which was good for the Food Bank to get even more volunteers. You don't just pull a glance of 204 people. Partly because of Oosterhout voor Elkaar, this action has once again become a great success. And we are very happy to continue to use this entrance and the services of Oosterhoutvoorelkaar, who think along wonderfully about how we can improve the request for help even more. For more info about the Food Bank: www.stillearmoede.org Would you like to register for this year 2017? This can be done by sending us a message. Click here to view the vacancy. Ine van den Einde (co-coordinator of shopping campaign Food Bank Oosterhout eo) Share these stories and inspire others to help too! Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Whatsapp Forward

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