A local post for my Belgian readers: the famous Delhaize supermarkets are currently hosting their annual Foodbank (Banque Alimentaire) action. You are free to add to your grocery bill 1,50€, or 3€, or 6€, to finance meals for people in need, by means of vouchers handed out by volunteers at the entrance of the supermarket. When you're done, just give the voucher you choose to at "check-out", it will be scanned along your groceries and stuff. Nothing else to do.
It's very simple, and it's not a lot of money, but again if each and every person doing their grocery shopping contributes even as little as 1,50€, altogether it could add up to a pretty large amount. A little goes a long way right? ;-)
The volunteer I spoke to at my local Delhaize supermarket told me that this kind of action is much more effective that asking people to buy a packet of rice or canned food. They started implementing this voucher system last year and they got a tremendous return compared to the previous years, way to go!
The only thing is, last day of the action is tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow, Wednesday 20th of October 2010. So you might not like Delhaize supermarkets but hey, you can buy only a loaf of bread and still make a generous act ;-)
This is Belgium, but Foodbank are present in other European countries. And I guess there are all kinds of similar programmes in North America too. Wouldn't it be nice to have a local-action-going-global kind of thing today, like everyone giving a little bit to a hunger-relief charity? I'll leave it up to you :-)
THANK YOU!
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