Drive begins to fill Spain's emptying food banks

Under the slogan "eating should not be a luxury", volunteers started the annual collection drive for food donations for the Spanish network of food banks.

Spain, like other countries has seen price increases, driven by rising fuel costs. An investigation published in June 2022 by the University of Barcelona, showed that 2.500,000 of Spanish homes did not have daily access to "healthy and nutritious food."

Volunteers have been stationed at hundreds of supermarkets to take in donations of tinned meats, vegetables, pulses, milk and cooking oil from shoppers. In the last donation campaign, 4.500,000 kilograms of food was handed over. The collection drive ends on December 6th.

At one of the three delivery and distribution centers in Madrid, food donated was being organized for shipment to the numerous NGO and religious organizations that handout the supplies. An estimated 1.3 million people receive products from the Spanish network of food banks, according to the Spanish Federation of Food Banks. Inflation in Spain peaked this summer at 10.8% in July and moderately slowed to 7.3% in October.