Banco de Alimentos

Our daily work at Banco de Alimentos, through the years, is the war against hunger in Argentina (fighting hunger in Argentina) and the way we do it is through the efficient and transparent management of food donations received from different companies. This food is aken to our warehouses, where we classify and deliver it to thousands of hungry individuals in our country.

With a procedure as simple as this, we provide food to more than 480 organizations and soup kitchens in Buenos Aires City and its surrounding areas where more than 78,000 hungry individuals are fed.

In order to fulfill each step of this process your monthly donation is indispensable. Today there are hundreds of institutions and soup kitchens in our waiting list and with as little as u$s 23 per month you are helping us to feed 68 individuals.

Don´t wait until tomorrow. Walk with us as from today.

Thousands of people are thanking you for your effort.

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Subject Area: Nutrition

Location: Federal Capital & Greater Buenos Aires

Goals:

Helping those suffering from hunger by asking for, and distributing foods fit for consumption. Educating about issues surrounding hunger and malnutrition.

In the present, Fundacion Banco de Alimentos distributes 250 tonnes of foodstuffs per month and counts with the necessary logistics to quickly classify, store, and distribute food. We have an 800 square-meter warehouse equipped with walk-in coolers and freezers. Our computerized information system tracks the stock and expiration dates of all food stored in the warehouse and enables us to provide detailed reports of food donors. The organization works under strict quality control policies, allowing us to be ISO 9001:2000 certified.

Fundacion Banco de Alimentos provides Food donations to more than 480 organizations in Capital Federal and Greater Buenos Aires, feeding more than 79.000 persons. Our partner organizations include soup kitchens, day-care centers, schools, community centers, homes for needy children and nursing homes. These organizations go through an evaluation and selection process to be incorporated into the Food Bank network. This evaluation is done based on documentation provided by the organization, geographical area location, poverty level and a first visit to ensure that organizations meet our equipment and control of sanitation requirements. If the agency meets these requirements it is built to start receiving food.

Every six months, volunteers make a monitoring visit to each agency. These visit also help us to strengthen our relationship with our partner organizations.

Partner organizations pick up food donations form our warehouse and make a contribution of $0.50 per kilo of food received

Objectives:

To recover that food which cannot be sold by our donors due to different reasons

Programs:

MerenDar: A partir de octubre del 2002, 870 chicos reciben su desayuno o merienda a través de este programa que desarrollan en conjunto el Banco de Alimentos y Kraft Cares.

Repsol YPF: El programa Repsol - YPF – Banco de Alimentos de complementación alimentaria, que se desarrolla en el colegio Nuestra Señora de Fátima de Villa Soldati desde el primero de Junio de 2003, hace posible que cerca de 1000 niños reciban todos los días su copa de leche y otros 500 una porción de carne en su almuerzo.

Nutrihigiene: Capacitación a los encargados de cocina sobre manipulación segura de alimentos

Huertas orgánicas: Brinda asesoramiento y semillas para que los comedores puedan cultivar sus propias frutas y verduras

Incorporation number:

480

Inspecting institution:

Inspeccion General de Justicia

Year founded:

2001

Staff:

Volunteers:

1000

In the following lines we share with you some of our succeds:

- We distribute an average of 255 tons of food per month. Our donors include ore than 90 food companies and 25 service companies.

- The Banco de Alimentos has obtained an IS0 9001:2000 certification which
obliges us to keep the high quality standards required for our kind of work.

-400 volunteers are actively working at our Bank and 1200 are registered and
can be called upon when required.

-Our volunteers donate around 15,000 hours of work and talent to our
organization.

-New warehouse: we are already starting to work on the construction project for the new warehouse which will be built on the land we have received from a private donor

BENEFICIARIES

62% of our beneficiaries are children under 13 years old and 18% are teenagers.
- 0-2 years ____________________   4.719 persons
- 3-5 years____________________ 16.802 persons
- 6-12 years ___________________ 27.271 persons
- Teenagers___________________   14.417 persons
- Adults ______________________   12.230 persons
- Elderly ______________________   3.455 persons
TOTAL _______________________ 78.894 persons

FOOD DONATIOS

- Food received(Kg)______________________________ 2,952,103
- Food delivered (Kg)_____________________________ 2,925,127
- Estimation of dietary needs of organizations (Kg) ______ 14,150,406
- Percentage of needs covered by the Foundation______ 20.7%

Income:

Total Income: 2 179 139,00 ARS

Expenditure:

Total Expenses: 1 838 356,30 ARS

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Address:

Luis María Drago 5530

Locality:

San Martín

Zip/Postal Code:

1650

Telephone:

(54 11) 4724-2334

Fax:

(54 11) 4724-2334

E-mail:

info@bancodealimentos.org.ar

Website:

http://www.bancodealimentos.org.ar

Board of Directors:

Ambrosio Nougues, Clara G. M. de Gotelli, Gustavo Fernández Casares, Alejandro Vercellana, Rafael Braun, Ana Aracama Zorraquin, Luis M. Bameule, Mercedes de Campos de Oris de Roa, M. Cecilia Felgueras, José María Simone, Soledad Vigil, Ann Mitchell, María Marta Mallea, Ernesto Kritz

Team:

Marisa Giraldez - Directora General
Virginia Errecart - Secretaria Ejecutiva.
Alejandra Molina - Directora de Operaciones
Ivana Hein - Coordinadora de Administración
Fernando Bacigalupo - Coordinador de Contabilidad y Finanzas
Walter Schuster – Asistente Administrativo/Contable
María Dartiguelongue - Responsable de Desarrollo de Recursos
Sofía Nougues – Coordinadora de Desarrollo de Recursos
Barbara Lan Duncan – Coordinadora de Desarrollo de Recursos
Claudio Teloni – Responsable de Donantes de Alimentos
Gastón Peton – Asistente de Donantes de Alimentos
Lorena Orellana – Responsable de Comunicación Institucional
Paula Goncalves – Responsable de Entidades Receptoras
Daniel Broqua – Asistente de Entidades Receptoras
Emmanuel Godoy - Asistente de Entidades Receptoras
Mercedes Cid – Responsable de Recursos Humanos
Solange Basso – Responsable de Calidad
Pablo Wawro – Responsable de Depósito
Leonardo Stark – Encargado de Depósito
Roberto García – Asistente de Depósito
Claudio Mella - Asistente de Depósito
Damián Merlo - Asistente de Depósito
Daniel Apolonio - Asistente de Depósito
Marcos Russo - Asistente de Depósito