Bulgarians in Need Received over 32 Tons of Food Products under European Programs

More than 32,000 tons of food products have been implemented in the three up-to-date support campaigns provided under the Operational Program for Food and / or Basic Material Assistance from the European Support Fund for the Most Deprived Persons (FPEN), the Agency for Social Services assistance. Each year, the assistance under the "Provision of Individual Food Packages" operation reaches over 500,000 people.

The data were made during a joint working meeting between the Managing Authority of the Program in the face of the Agency for Social Assistance and the partner organization that organizes the distribution of the packages - the Bulgarian Red Cross.

The meeting was held in Plovdiv. It also provided information summarized by the Managing Authority's experts from the survey of the beneficiaries during the last completed campaign, which started in December 2018 and ended in May 2019. Over 95% of consumers have expressed their overall satisfaction with the support of individual packages of food products provided under the Food Operational Program. Approval of the assortment has accounted for almost 99% of the aided, and the package delivery organization is almost 100% satisfied. The survey is organized by the BRC partner organization within each divestment and the support of the supported persons is traditionally very high.

The aim of the Managing Authority in the form of the Social Assistance Agency is to support the BRC partner organization and to monitor the food distribution process in order to successfully implement and achieve the set indicators that take into account the impact of the program on the persons living in the final poverty in the Republic of Bulgaria. The meeting also presented the degree of achievement of the objectives and...