Food bank

Each Bulgarian discards an average of 93 kilograms of food annually, translating to a financial loss of over 520 leva, according to Eurostat data. Tsanka Milanova, the executive director of the Bulgarian Food Bank (BFB), shared these statistics during a presentation at the BFB warehouse, coinciding with World Food Day, celebrated in Bulgaria for the third consecutive year.

Pantelis Tsiadis' day often begins before dawn, with the alarm clock ringing at 5.30 a.m.

Long lines are back at food banks around the U.S. as working Americans overwhelmed by inflation turn to handouts to help feed their families.

With gas prices soaring along with grocery costs, many people are seeking charitable food for the first time, and more are arriving on foot.

British food banks are seeing more families needing their support as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic forces struggling people to seek help, charities and volunteers say.

This year we will spend nearly BGN 2 billion for food and gifts. However, according to experts, in the days after the holidays, each of us throws away a third of what he bought, NOVA reported.

World food prices slipped in September from the month before, with only sugar posting a rise, the United Nations food agency said on Oct. 4.

"Food banks are structured like a regular company, except for the fact that they don't have an office for paying salaries because almost everyone who works there is a volunteer," explains the president of the European Federation of Food Banks (FEBA), Jacques Vandenschrik, in an interview with Kathimerini about the mounting challenges the continent's 366 such organizations face.

In Greece, there is enough food for all, the European Union offers hundreds of millions of euros in aid, several organizations and civil society groups provide their services and yet there is a high degree of poverty, hunger and insecurity. This simple presentation of things reveals many bitter truths.

More than seven years ago, Serhan Süzer, a CEO in the fast-food sector, heard Bob Forney, the founder of the Global Food Banking Network, speak passionately on the need to bring surplus food to people in need.

Foods donated by retailers to non-profit organizations will not be levied with a value-added tax (VAT) if the products are thirty days or less out of their expiry date, Bulgarian lawmakers have decided.

The tax exemption will only be applied if the total value of donations does not exceed 0.5% of the respective businesses' annual turnover.