31.8.24. 7pm IST
FOOD BANK SANGOLDA GOA , collects 28 tonnes ( 28000 kgs ) of good Cooked excess factory food, in the last 5 months from just 9 factories , @ Verna Industrial Estate.
We are ” Turning Surplus into Support for those in need “.
These 28 tonnes of food, fed 84000 meals in the last 5 months ( 1 kg = 3 meals ) .
These 28 tonnes of food if not collected by our food bank , would havd reached the wet treatment plant & thrown out as waste.
Most of these 9 factories feel proud & happy that their factory contributed towards :
▪︎Feeding the hungry,
▪︎Reducing wet waste ,
▪︎Saving the environment &
▪︎We get a financial charge every month towards the cost of picking up this food which goes towards running our shelter homes for the homeless & goans with disabilites.
Running food bank is very very complicated & requires accurate time management as the food has to be moved to the poor & needy ASAP.
If we are able to feed hundreds of meals daily & thousands of meals every month then the credit goes to :
☆ 1. Secretary, Factories & Boilers, Mr Sanjit Rodrigues IAS ,
☆ 2. Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, Mr Anant Pangam,
( Both of these fine officers understood my idea & got 9 big factories to support this idea.)
☆ 3. The company which provided us the refrigerated truck under CSR which enables us to pick & hold 300 kgs food per time ,
☆ 4. Our food feeder at Vasco , Mr Hassan Khan,
☆ 5. Our various staff who daily pick this food from nine factories 6 days a week 2.30 to 4.30 pm.
But these 28000 kgs has to come from a source and these are the companies which donate their extra canteen food daily :
◇ Commscope
◇ Micro Labs
◇ IFB
◇ Siemens
◇ Marksons
◇ Cipla
◇ Teva
◇ Lupin
◇ Sanofi.
If these companies refused to support the idea of donating their extra canteen food to the food bank as well as reimbursing the costs every month, then these 28000 kgs would have reached the bins and turned to waste.
We also collect food daily in these Industrial Estates :
》San Jose the Areal : 1 company
》Kundanim : 1 company
》Corlim : 2 companies.
Per month all our factory food collection is about 7000 to 8000 kgs but Verna Industrial Estate is the biggest contributing sector to our food bank.
All services has a cost and some one has to bear the costs otherwise it reaches the bins and that's how our waste treatment plants are going out of control.
We feel satisfied that many many poor families are benefitting from this extra food daily across pockets in Goa.
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God bless you all
Donald Fernandes
8380097564 / 7020314848
