"You give very little when you give your possessions.
It is when you give yourself that you truly give." 

                      (Khalil Gibran)

Belgrade FOOD BANK is a non-governmental, humanitarian organisation founded in late 2006, which works towards diminishing poverty in Serbia and taking part in fight against hunger and food waste.

The Food Bank activities are based on the idea of sharing and donations, as well as promoting solidarity amongst the citizens and showing that together we can be in service of those who need our help.

„Destitution bends the spine, slows down the walk, withers the voice, whilst gripping the eyes like an invisible, sticky spiders web, irrepairably and irreversibly kneading the human being down, tightening its limits around him, separating him forever from joy, so that nothing can help him, nor money, nor the most favorable change of his living conditions, because he has no more the ability to accept them.“

(Ivo Andrić)

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Credit Agricole Bank Serbia and wholesale company Metro Cash & Carry Serbia, in cooperation with the Secretariat of Social Protection City Administration and the Food Bank of Belgrade, organized an event called The New Year's Box in the Sava Center, during which about 900 children from socially vulnerable families and children without parental care from Belgrade received New Year gifts. Red Cross volunteers and students of Philological and Tenth High School "Mihajlo Pupin" distributed presents to the children. New Year's atmosphere was completed with the balloons, donated  by the company Balloon Party Ltd. Action took place under the media sponsorship of B92 and newspapers Press and Pregled. 

Telekom Serbia has responded to the Food bank appeal and, through action "A gift for you", provided New Year gifts for 350 children from Kraljevo (a total of 520 kg of sweets).  

Delta Maxi Group and the Food Bank made Christmas holidays happier for 65 children of NGO Veza beneficiaries, who also received New Years gifts.   In addition, 60 single-member elderly households received a donation of 240 kg (180 kg and 60 kg of hygiene) from Delta Maxi Group through the association “Vojvođanske inicijative” from Zrenjanin.

The Coca-Cola Hellenic Serbia has donated 112,900 liters of various fruit juices.   The donation was divided and donated to many schools, homes for children, the elderly and others throughout Serbia, including Belgrade, through more than 40 associations and the Centers for Social Work. 

The National Bank of Serbia - a branch in Nis - organized food collection for the members of Single Mothers' Association from Nis.   Employees of the Nis branch of the NBS collected about 300 kg of food and hygiene products that were given to single mothers. 

Strauss Adriatic d.o.o.  donated 400 kg of various foods that were distributed to the Association of war and peace invalids in Vozdovac (100 kg), for 30 of their members, and to the Association of Single Mothers "Suncokreti" from Loznica (300 kg), for 50 single mothers.

Donation of the company Soko Nada Stark AD, a member of the Droga Kolinska group, which consisted of 105 kg of biscuits - piskote, was delivered to the association "Lastavica" from Plandište for their members.   

The company Ball Packaging Europe Belgrade, with its donation of 833 kg of various food products, supported the users of the City Center for Social Work municipality of Zemun and New Belgrade.  

Credit Agricole Bank Serbia, wholesale company Metro Cash  & Carry Serbia and the Food Bank have provided around 2.5 tons of food through humanitarian action “Magic breakfast”, which was organized in the Metro distribution center in Zemun, Belgrade, for students from 15 schools for children with special needs. Professional buyers collected about 300 kg of food, while about 2.2 tons were donated by companies, organizers of the action. 

Part of the donation from the company Bilje - Borca, 200 boxes of fruit tea, was delivered to the association “Vojvodjanske inicijative” from Zrenjanin and the association of single mothers "Suncokreti" from Loznica.  

The foundation "Humane Heart" from Sabac, received 65 kg of various essential food - part of the donations of companies Strauss Adriatic d.o.o.  and Delta Maxi Group - as emergency aid for three multi-member socially vulnerable families. Delta Maxi Group has also donated 16 kg of food to the four particularly socially vulnerable families in Sabac, through the same Foundation. 

The donation of the International Women's Club, which consisted of 64 kg of ice cream Nestle, was given to the Center for adults and older persons in Kumodraz.