The Hungarian Maltese Charity Service plays a major role in food rescue

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 11. 05. 11:25

The Hungarian Maltese Charity Service plays a major role in food rescue, and out of the six charitable organizations participating in the program, the Maltese have delivered the largest amount to the needy in the past three years, said Miklós Soltész, the Prime Minister’s State Secretary responsible for Church and Ethnic Relations, in Budapest on Tuesday.

The State Secretary at the opening of the new logistics center of the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service, IX. district highlighted: according to surveys, 30 percent of food suitable for consumption ends up in the garbage, and 57 million tons of food are thrown away in the European Union every year.

As he said, in the past three years, thanks to the cooperation of the government, charitable organizations and retail chains, 8,500 tons of food reached the needy, with a total value of HUF 8.7 billion.

The largest part of this was undertaken by the Maltese charity service.

Expressing the magnitude of the amount of food saved, he said: the amount of food, medicine and medical aids delivered to Ukraine in the past thousand days was about 5,400 tons.