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Poverty is a daily challenge, let’s find pathways out of it together. Help us #HelpTheHelpers.

Not everyone chooses the mountain in front of them, but when you do your commitment is vital.  Fighting poverty is a daily challenge.  Everybody has to eat, and that’s a great place to start.  TheFoodProject.es are so much more than just a Food Bank, though, they act as a vital community hub, helping people to progress and escape the poverty holding them down.  You can help.

We try to cover all the transaction costs.  Our corporate sponsors and walkers pay the costs of the event, meaning we can say that 100% of the public donations we receive will go direct to the charities we support, this year we are focused once again on the main southern Food Bank for Mogán, in Arguineguín TheFoodProject.es

#HelpTheHelpers #TheFoodProject #WeCrossMountains

Every donation here helps a local family in real need.  The Food Project receives no local government assistance, and so have to rent their community facility privately. They are supplied with donated supplies and supported by The Food Bank of Las Palmas, but they survive only thanks to your generosity.

The project is volunteer-led and they are a vital life line for more than 500 individuals every week, doing much more than just feed empty bellies: they act as a vital community hub coordinating donations of food and clothing, shoes, furniture even mobility scooters, and provide a qualified social worker who helps to guide each individual through their life projects… and so much more besides… here is a little window on to what they have to spend…

10€ contributes to their gaining access to a social worker to help find work, training, education and extra help

30€ supplements a family of 3 for a week with fresh produce

50€ helps buy shoes and clothing for kids going Back To School

100€ is enough to organise a computer for families without access to technology, or pay transport costs for moving furniture, or a range of other much needed assistance all provided by The Food Project.

500€ buys milk, potatoes, juices and fresh vegetables for one week to supplement the rice and pasta etc provided by The Food Bank in Las Palmas

1000€ helps pay for a part time social worker to directly assist individuals and families who have no access to legal advice or ways to escape extreme poverty

2000€ pays the building rent for one month

….not to mention all the utility bills… we want to try and assist in covering as much of that as we can by demonstrating that #WeCrossMountains when we work together