The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, through the Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund (FEGA), has launched the second and final phase of the ‘2023 Food Aid Programme for the most disadvantaged people’, in which it is planned to distribute about 36 million kilos of food throughout the country.
The food purchased is basic in nature, not perishable, easy to transport and storage. In this way, the basket includes rice, cooked chickpeas, cooked beans, canned tuna, sardine canned, meat canned (lean), alimentary paste (spaghetti and noodles), fried tomato, biscuits, vegetable mackerel, canned fruit, soluble cocoa and childish fruit and chicken tarrites.
These products are delivered to all Spanish provinces through the food banks and provincial Red Cross centers, which will distribute it to some 5,200 partner delivery organizations. The final beneficiaries of the aid are approximately 1.3 million people who will be able to easily prepare a full meal for a person or family, including babies. In the case of Cantabria, the number of people who will receive 302,263 kilos of food is 9,915.
The purchase of the food has been carried out by the EAGGF through a public tender process worth 88,571,420 million euros (VAT not included). In the case of Cantabria, the purchase of food from this second and last phase of the ‘2023 Programme of food aid for the most disadvantaged people’ amounts to 545,418.96 euros.
The program is funded this year in its entirety by the OBJECTIVE-EU recovery and resilience fund, which has been used to increase support for the European Fund for the Most Disadvantaged People (FEAD), in order to address the situation of those who have been affected socially and economically, by the COVID-19 crisis.
The year 2023 is the last year in which the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food participates in the implementation of the plans of the food aid program for the most disadvantaged people of the European Union, in which it participates since 1987 without interruption.
From 2024, the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy, and the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 will be the competent ministries to articulate this model of aid in Spain.
On the website of the Spanish Agrarian Guarantee Fund you can consult all the details related to the 2023 Program: https://www.fega.gob.es/es/ayuda-alimentaria