4 simple ways to help people in difficult situations with the Gift of Food!
Miscellaneous / / November 30, 2021
What is the "Give food!"
This is a charitable project that provides food for people in difficult situations. For five years of existence "Give me food!»Helped 110 640 wards. The Foundation supports large families, pensioners, homeless people, orphans, families with children with disabilities, and disabled adults, single parents. Volunteers "Give food!" they bring food sets to the wards, and ready-made set meals for people with limited mobility.
Food as a support was not chosen by chance. Food is an important part of life, but often people with low incomes have to decide what to spend their money on - paying utility bills or groceries. As a result, it is nutrition that suffers: it is difficult to create a healthy and balanced diet for a small amount. In addition, providing groceries is one of the easiest and fastest ways to help, which anyone can join.
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How can you help
1. Put the groceries in the box of the fund
This can be done during the next grocery shopping. Now the fund "Give food!" there are 485 boxes in 145 cities of Russia. They are located in shopping malls and grocery stores. Finding the nearest box is easy on
map.Leaving fruits, vegetables or dairy products, of course, is not worth it - they can deteriorate even before the products from the box are sorted into the fund. But cereals, salt, sugar, canned food, cookies or other food with a long shelf life and does not require special storage conditions are an excellent option. You can put one product or a whole package into the box - there are no restrictions or requirements, it all depends on your capabilities.
2. Send donation
If there is no boxing fund in the city or you are far away from it, you can support the wards with the help of donations on the website "Give food!". There is a ready-made form in which you just need to select the amount of the contribution and indicate your email address, and then fill in the card details in a new window (the payment is safe and protected according to the international standard PCI).
You can transfer the amount one time or subscribe to monthly donations. "Give me food!" offers several options: for example, 50 rubles a month will allow the fund to buy a pack of cereals, and 1,500 will provide one family with a set of products for a whole week. If none of the fixed options suits you, you can specify any other amount. Even 10 or 20 rubles a month will help fight hunger.
3. Buy groceries in the online store "Give me food!"
Another option for remote support is buying a set of products in online store "Give me food!" There are several ready-made baskets that will provide wards with food for a day, a week or two. The cost varies from 350 to 2,320 rubles.
The description of each set contains a list of products (cereals, milk, juices, canned food) and their total weight. For example, the most budgetary basket weighs 2.5 kilograms, while the most expensive one weighs 12.8 kilograms.
4. Take part in the action "Give food with MTS Bank"
The easiest, but no less significant way to support the fund is to take part in the action dedicated to the International Day of Charity and the international action "Generous Tuesday". Her together with "Give food!" conducts MTS Bank.
Every caring user of social networks can help. The rules of participation are as simple as possible! On the day of the start of the action - November 30 - on the official pages of the bank in Facebook, Twitter, «Classmates" and "In contact with"The publication appeared. All you need to do is like her or repost her to your page. And you can do both. All marks of MTS Bank will be converted into rubles and transferred to the account "Give me food!». For example, if a post has 100,000 likes and 50,000 shares, the fund will receive 150,000 rubles.
Likes and reposts will be counted no later than December 23rd. All collected funds will be used to purchase complex meals for pensioners and people with disabilities. health, as well as food baskets for large families, families with disabled children and other groups from the list of wards fund. Already in January, food will be delivered to the addressees - volunteers of MTS Bank will help you do this as quickly as possible.
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