If you are based in CEMEX House did you know that your team meetings could contribute to making a difference in our local community? Read on and you can find out how!
Every little bit counts
You may not know this but one quarter of Coventry’s population live below the breadline. That’s 90,000 people. The Coventry Foodbank is located only three minutes from CEMEX House at the Halo Centre and is currently working to address this food poverty. Coventry Foodbank is the biggest warehouse in the Feed the Hungry Network. It services 14 foodbanks in Coventry relying on public donations and 350 volunteers to keep things running.
The foodbank is currently feeding 2,500 people per month (three days provision of food). In 2022, the foodbank distributed 440 tons to families. Due to the cost-of-living crisis, this number is expected to increase by 46% in 2023.
Feed the Hungry feed 500,000 children a day through the school feeding programmes in African countries. This provides a child with a hot meal, an education, allows girls and boys to grow up together to learn to respect each other and to keep the girls safer for longer. The organisation also responds with emergency food and relief during disasters like the Haiti earthquake, COVID outbreak in India and Nepal, and Syrian crisis. The foodbank continues to send support for families in Ukraine and Lebanon.
What can you do?
Now that we know the depth of the challenge, here is where you can make a significant difference:
- Volunteer at the Coventry Foodbank – within two hours you can pack food parcels to feed more than 50 families.
- If you would like to hold your meetings close to CEMEX House, but offsite, the Coventry Foodbank has training facilities available. The cost of each training session can contribute to feeding three families.
For more information on volunteering at the foodbank or their training facilities, get in touch with Chiedza Mupfumira, Social Impact Specialist [email protected].