Donations for the boards: 50,000 euros help those in Saarland!

In Saarland, the tables support around 20,000 people in need and save perfect quality foods in front of the waste bin. The SZ Commercial Association Hilf-Mit! Plant to transfer a donation of around 50,000 euros to the boards in Saarland before Christmas. This provides the fourth donation from Hilf-Mit! on the boards, a total of 157,000 euros have been donated.

The donation is distributed on eleven Saarland plates and to the Eppelborn table round, based on the number of supplied households. The donation history from Hilf-Mit! Publish the following amounts: 25,000 euros in 2020, 32,000 euros in 2022 and 50,000 euros in 2023 and 2024.

challenges for the boards

The tables face growing challenges because demand increases while the availability of food decreases. Marliese Stay von der Tafel Sulzbach/Fischbachtal reports on an increase in the needy since the Ukraine conflict. This table supplies an average of 160 people with the support of ten volunteers. The Eppelborn table round, which supplies around 160 in need - many of them pensioners - also have to buy a lot of food, apart from free baked goods.

Help-with! has supported people and various welfare organizations since 1973, whereby all donations benefit the needy. The Saarbrücker Zeitung assumes all material and administrative costs for help! and offers donation certificates, whereby the donors are published in the newspaper, unless otherwise desired.

The Tafel concept has been established in Germany since 1993 and represents one of the largest social-ecological movements. Tables save not sold but qualitatively flawless foods and pass them on to needy people, especially long-term unemployed, low earners, children, adolescents and seniors with low pensions. The boards promote social responsibility and self -help and contribute to avoiding food waste.

in Saarland have been in tables for almost 30 years that work against food waste. There, a total of 11 plates support over 23,000 people in need, such as Saarland.de reported.