Tripartite cooperation for a fairer distribution of food

Munch, Tesco and the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület launched a revolutionary collaboration to find new solutions to the problem of food waste while providing support to those in need. With the help of the project, which is called MunCharity, more than a thousand food packages have already been distributed to more than a hundred needy people.

From the stores directly to the needy

The goal of MunCharity is to integrate food rescue in shops with low turnover and therefore low food waste, where it is not worth running traditional food rescue routes, and it is much better if a social organization does not go to the store’s surplus every day, but directly to the local people in need receive the donations. The project is currently running in two Tesco stores in the express stores on Pablo Neruda Street and Hasadek Street in Budapest.

“For 10 years, we have been cooperating with the Food Bank in order to deliver leftover but still edible food from our stores to those in difficult situations during our daily food rescue work. With this, we can not only reduce food waste, but also help those in need. We are extremely happy that, with the cooperation of Munch, we can expand the program even further, so that we can simply donate food from Tesco stores where the conditions for this were not met before. Since the summer, more than 100 needy people have received more than 1,000 food packages from our two express stores, and at the beginning of next year we want to involve more stores in the tripartite cooperation”

– said Nóra Hevesi, head of communications and campaigns at Tesco Hungary.