The Egyptian Food Bank

The Egyptian Food Bank is a charitable entity aimed at the supply and delivery of food to orphans, elders, widows, needy families and everyone who is incapable of work or profit. It is a national nongovernmental, nonprofit organization that was established under the supervision and inspection of the Ministry of Social Solidarity and the Central Accounting Agency. It is sponsored by a number of private sector companies, in collaboration with volunteer individuals, accepting monetary and material donations as well as unused or extra foods, through collection from different entities, companies, organizations or volunteer individuals, making use of it by offering healthy meals on periodical schedules to the true needy.

1) The idea of Egyptian Food Bank

A group of Egyptian business men started the idea of the Egyptian food bank as they observed a hunger problem in Egypt and wanted to do an initiative that could really fight hunger. Food and drink are basic human needs and shall be valid and available, as the lack of it may cause death and a lot of illness, so through the past 5 years, they’ve tried hard to provide a decent amount of food to a number of poor families and charity institutions.

2) collecting the donations

Most products are donations from major industrial companies in Egypt, whether it is the food or machines or even their factory. they also depend on active volunteer work, from young people who are interested to do something out of good will.

3) the team Work

There are two teams. The first one is full time workers, who are chosen in a very professional way. They are experts in machines and industrial work.The other part of the team is from volunteers who come to help with the packaging and all.

4) preparation for the Ramadan packaging process

Tehy work 3 months in advance as they have a goal, they hope to achieve which is providing 1 million bags. We start highlighting what the bags include and they manage through a systematic way.

5) The offered products

basically they offer food, but back in Aswan flood, they offered shelter like sleeping sheets. they have also their own product- Hedeya, it is a variety of carbohydrates like rice, beans and Macaroni they have also canned meals including beef plus rice and beans as well as tomato paste cans and cooking oil.

6) People who want to help but dont know from where to start

They have a Call center and volunteers could call them on 16060 and they will do our best to allocate a job according that suits their qualifications. they call them back and manage the work with their own schedule. People could come after hours or in weekends.