Foodbank Conference in Budapest

The annual meeting and conference of the European Association of Foodbanks will be held in Budapest, between the 27th and 29th of May 2010.

The meeting aims to launch a Europe-wide campaign, to transport more thousands tons of food – instead of destruction – to people in need. In Europe, 79 million people live below the poverty line, while 30 million people do not eat properly. The statistics in the European Union's new member states are even more worse: 30 percent in Bulgaria, 29 percent in Slovakia and 26 percent in Hungary.