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Greek Online Initiative Aims to Fight Hunger

According to Athens University of Economics research, one in 11 Greeks resorts to welfare centers for rations because they cannot afford food. Yet a stroll past garbage bins outside restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets shows tonnes of food thrown away daily.
Athens, like every modern-day city, has fallen into a paradox: people going hungry as unconsumed food fills neighborhood trash. As Nobel laureate Amartya Sen noted, famines and hunger are not caused by lack of food, but rather distributional problems.
And that is exactly what motivated Greek Food Bank volunteer Xenia Papastavrou to set up Boroume – Saving Food, Saving Lives (www.boroume.gr).
Translated as “We Can”, the months-old online initiative aims to raise awareness and offer a channel of communication, serving as a go-between, guiding volunteers and interested parties in the right direction.
“The idea was born in May. As a food bank volunteer I experienced first-hand the rising need for food and the daily struggle various institutions went through to secure rations for the needy. At the same time, I noticed so much food being thrown away,” Papastavrou told SETimes.
Boroume works hand-in-hand with the Greek Food Bank, a non-profit organisation founded in 1995 by Gerasmios Vasilopoulos, with the goal to fight hunger and limit waste.
Boroume and the Food Bank have the same goal: to stop waste and offer the needy help. The Food Bank collects and distributes food, whereas Boroume co-ordinates and promotes food to the poor,” Dionysopoulos adds.

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