Tesco also helps the Food Bank’s spring food collection campaign with volunteer employees

By: Trademagazin Date: 2023. 05. 12. 12:10

For years, Tesco has been supporting the non-perishable food collection campaign of the Magyar Élélmiszerbank Egyesület not only as a location and as a donor, but also with volunteer work. Due to the ever-increasing needs of the needy, the initiative will be launched in the spring for the first time this year, so help is needed now more than ever. On May 12 and 13, in nearly 100 Tesco stores across the country, volunteers in green vests – including Tesco colleagues – will be waiting for customers’ food donations, including pasta, canned food, sauces, baby food, and sweets.

Seeing the increase in the number of the needy, the Food Bank is organizing its charity campaign in the spring for the first time this year, during which it collected 250,000 kilos of non-perishable food during the Advent period of the past years. Last year, before Christmas, customers collected enough food for 30 holiday packages for the needy during every minute of the weekend collection, for which 93 tons of donations came from Tesco stores and from there reached 140 institutions and social centers, including, for example, a foundation in Pest County, where mildly and moderately mentally disabled young adults live.

“As a strategic partner of the Food Bank for 10 years now, we joined the call without question with our 98 stores. Although as a retailer, we do our best to reduce food expenses, unfortunately there are still those for whom the rice, ready-made food or long-lasting milk collected at this time are essential help, and many needy people can only taste chocolate or biscuits through donations. We therefore encourage our customers to think about those in difficult situations on May 12 and 13, and to put extra non-perishable food in their baskets when shopping, and then drop it off at the collection points next to our cash registers. Here you will also meet colleagues from Tesco who carry the plight of the needy in their hearts and help in the implementation of the initiative as volunteers”

– said Nóra Hevesi, Tesco’s head of communication in Hungary.